Handy, well-illustrated guide shows how to paint the nude figure in easy-to-follow series of 24 fully illustrated projects. Materials and equipment; anatomy; hues, tones and values; focus on painting major body parts. Over 190 illus., 33 in full color.
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Handy, well-illustrated guide shows how to paint the nude figure in easy-to-follow series of 24 fully illustrated projects. Materials and equipment; anatomy; hues, tones and values; focus on painting major body parts. Over 190 illus., 33 in full color.
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Add this copy of Figure Painting in Oil to cart. $91.76, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Dover Publications.
Add this copy of Figure Painting in Oil to cart. $98.82, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Dover Publications.
Add this copy of Figure Painting in Oil to cart. $99.99, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Watson-Guptill.
Good basic book for learning figure drawing . Good for beginners.
rmbarnhart
Aug 9, 2007
Figure painting in 1973
Douglas R. Graves offers a good, full introduction to figure painting in oil as it was practiced and taught by many professional painters in the mid-twentieth century. After initial surveys of materials, techniques, proportions, and anatomy, he turns to procedures for the individual parts of the body, beginning with the head and ending with the feet, followed by demonstrations of standing, seated , and reclining figures. This body of the book is illustrated only in black and white, but has the advantage of richly illustrating the role of tonal values in figure depictions. Graves is very open and direct in recounting his procedures, and offers good practical pointers for the beginner. The book concludes with thirty pages of full color demonstrations of various specific figure compositions emphasizing warm and cool colors and individual skin tones in producing finished works. This is a good book to start with; it is also historically interesting to more advanced painters and is the product of much experience.
