Paint
YA?This art book is both inspiring and practical?a joy to the eye and wonderful for browsing. It provides sections on "Colours," "Open Air Painting," "Parts of the Body," "Still and Fast Life," and "Imagination." Even the subheadings are fascinating?"Substance and Weight," "Yourself in Fur," "Armpits and Violet," "Art Diaries," "Doff A Hat to Cezanne," and "Vastness." Each page is full of illustrations, italicized captions, and catchy sidebars. Many of the 1500 images are fine reproductions of familiar works, but droves of them are rendered by the witty brush and pen of Camp himself, "after" the styles of great artists?Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Bosch, Rembrandt. The captions are clever and fulsome and contain all manner of insights. Hints and suggestions abound and there is a heartening general tone: "...if we are not all artists together, at least we are all in it together."?Frances Reiher, Fairfax Public Library System, VACopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.