Budding young artists get an early start with these instructive how-to manuals. Each book covers the basics of drawing and painting and advises on tools and methods in various media -- charcoal, ink, pastel chalks, crayons, acrylics, watercolors, and others. These volumes are filled with color illustrations and step-by-step directions, presented on a level suitable for older children. Each book closes with a glossary of terms that young art students should learn and know. These volumes make fine classroom manuals, and will be popular with self-starting boys and girls who enjoy doing art projects on their own.Here are ways to use line and color to give the illusion of depth, shadow, and distance. Children learn how to render mountains, deserts, forests, and farmland, as well as how to create convincing skies that give color and depth to land and water below.