The many artists at every level who learned from Classical Drawing Atelier have been clamoring for more of this sophisticated approach to teaching and learning. The educational process begins as students copy masterworks, then gradually progress to painting as their skills develop. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. Want to paint more like Manet and less like Jackson Pollock? Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model.