Wayne Thiebaud, renowned for his luminous still lifes of cakes and pies, was not only a celebrated figure in postwar American art but also a passionate educator. For over forty years at the University of California, Davis, he inspired generations of students with his belief that drawing is more than a technical skill—it is a way of seeing, thinking, and understanding the world. Thiebaud’s teaching emphasized the discipline and joy of visual observation, regularly connecting classroom exercises to his own creative process. Lectures on Art and Drawing is a unique collection, gathering for the first time a wide selection of student notes from Thiebaud’s foundational courses—Beginning Drawing, Descriptive Drawing, Life Drawing, Beginning Painting, Printmaking, and Theory and Criticism. These notes, refined through decades of studio practice and classroom insight, are concise, methodical, and surprisingly expansive. They guide readers from basic mark-making to the psychology of space, from compositional analysis to aesthetic judgment, offering a practical studio companion for artists, students, and teachers alike. At a time when art education increasingly favors theory over practice, this book offers a rare glimpse into a studio culture built on observation, repetition, and creative discipline. Lectures on Art and Drawing is not just a handbook for students—it is a record of one of the twentieth century’s most beloved painters in his other great role: that of a generous and exacting teacher. Introductory essay by Dr. Gene Cooper, Professor Emeritus, California State University Long Beach. # # # # # LG Williams is a Los Angeles-based artist and recently the Endowed University Instructor at The Academy of Art University; Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist-In-Residence at The Lodge in Hollywood, CA; and the Emmy Hennings Distinguished Professor at D(D).DDDD University. LG has exhibited in various national and international venues, including The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia , and has appeared in Artforum , The New York Times , Times Literary Supplement , The Guardian , Japan Times , Los Angeles Times , La Stampa , Bookforum , Purple Diary , Mousse Magazine , The Brooklyn Rail among others. PCP Press is an independent publisher of avant-garde books and insurgent authors. Founded in 1990 in San Francisco at a time when transgressive and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past three decades PCP has grown into a consistent publisher of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world’s most respected authors and cultural institutions — including Raymond Pettibon, Dave Hickey, Wayne Thiebaud, Bryan Reynolds, David Hawkes, Shepard Fairey, LG Williams, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and Luscerne Kunstpanorama. # # # # #