Portraits in Oil - The Van Wyk Way
This book is designed to aid beginning painters in creating beautiful and accurate portraits. 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 video, A Portrait: Step-by-Step.
128pp
165 color illustrations