This book is designed to aid beginning
as well as experiences portrait painters in
creating beautiful and accurate paintings.
It contains a multitude of tips on posing
and lighting models, recreating eyes,
eyeglasses and hair, painting from photographs
and creating a self-portrait. Helen breaks
down the challenge of portrait painting into
a simple elements anyone can achieve, using
beautiful, full-color illustrations of her
own work, as well as her trademark techniques
and formulas, including: color mixes for the
5 basic tones of flesh - techniques for painting
wet-in-wet and in loose strokes - keys to
painting eyes, hair, glasses and full poses -
how to capture expression and likeness - tips
for painting family and self portraiture. This
book is a perfect complement to the
DVD, A Portrait: Step-by-Step.
165 color illustrations
128pp
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