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An Introduction to Painting Portraits - Cuthbert, Rosalind
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This text focuses on portrait painting, and provides step-by-step demonstrations of how to create certain effects with different media, such as acrylic, oil watercolour and pastels. It questions what makes a good likeness in relation to proportion, fluency and selecting the right medium. There is advice on the use of photographs, self-portraiture and the commission process, and steers a course through the underlying forms of the head and face by discussing foreshortening, measuring and proportion. It explains the problems ...

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An Introduction to Painting Portraits 2004, New Burlington Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781861554567

Hardcover

An Introduction to Painting Portraits 2002, David & Charles, Newton Abbot

ISBN-13: 9780715315507

Paperback