Walter Brooks designed, edited and produced a series of fourteen books on various aspects of painting, drawing and acrylic crafts; he also contributed finished art and painting demonstrations for many of the books in the series. The books were produced for Western Publishing and distributed by M. Grumbacher, Inc. Several of the titles were later published in a larger volume, expanded with new material and titled “The Art of Painting”; these were distributed by Crown Publishers. In 1974 he produced an additional series for Western Publishing, aimed at a younger market, titled “Creative Ways”.

Although these books are out of print, we have found good quality used copies of a number of the titles on Amazon, Ebay and Etsy.

The Grumbacher Library Series

The Golden Press Art Instruction Series