How to Draw Cool Stuff
Catherine V. Holmes
Published 2014
253 pages
Free drawing & painting books
These books teach you to draw and paint. Pencil, ink, watercolor, oils, acrylics and digital illustration are all covered, with step-by-step lessons on technique, color, perspective and the figure. Beginners are welcome, and experienced artists will find ways to stretch their skills. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Colta Ives, Vincent van Gogh, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, Marije Vellekoop
1973 · 2006 edition
450 pages
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, Annalisa Perissa Torrini, Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia
Published 1883
550 pages
The Analysis of Beauty
William Hogarth
Published 1772
192 pages
Vigée Le Brun
Joseph Baillio, Katharine Baetjer, Paul Lang
Published 2016
278 pages
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Published 2001
323 pages
Cézanne in the studio
Carol M. Armstrong
Published 2004
148 pages
Wonder of the age
John Guy
Published 2011
224 pages
Delacroix
Sébastien Allard, Côme Fabre
Published 2018
314 pages
Valentin de Boulogne
Annick Lemoine, Patrizia Cavazzini, Keith Christiansen, Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Gianni Papi
Published 2016
276 pages
Modern Painters ...
John Ruskin
1857 · 1878 edition
524 pages
Origins of impressionism
Gary & LOYRETTE TINTEROW
Published 1994
486 pages
The poetry of nature
John T. Carpenter
Published 2018
223 pages
Personal viewpoints
J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Conservation Institute, Getty Research Institute
Published 2003
126 pages
Historical painting techniques, materials, and studio practice
Erma Hermens, Arie Wallert, Marja Peek
Published 1995
204 pages
Michael Faraday
Silvanus Phillips Thompson
Published 1898
334 pages
Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Walter A. Liedtke
Published 2007
1083 pages
Crumbling Idols
Hamlin Garland
Published 1894
222 pages
Fragonard
Perrin Stein, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Eunice Williams, Kelsey Brosnan
Published 2016
301 pages
German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600
Maryan Wynn Ainsworth
Published 2013
376 pages
Anecdotes of Painting in England
Horace Walpole
Published 1876
418 pages
Pieter Saenredam, the Utrecht work
Pieter Jansz Saenredam
Published 2002
304 pages
Li Kung-lin's Classic of filial piety
Richard M. Barnhart
Published 1993
176 pages
Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Published 1996
398 pages