Describes the many different kinds of tools and supplies which artists use to produce their work.

Provides instruction on using pencils, pens, and watercolors to sketch nature scenes, discussing tools and equipment, light and angles, mixing paints and washes, and how to capture flowers, trees, animals, and clouds.

Presents the life and paintings of Edgar Degas in a first person narrative drawn from letters, notebooks, and people's stories about the artist.

A young girl from Brooklyn, New York enjoys her summer at the beach where she can paint and listen to the wild waves.

A sick artist with no will to live feels she will die when the last leaf falls from the tree by her window--yet for some reason the leaf hangs on.