Dover Oil Portraits Step by Step Oil Portraits Step by Step

This instructive, profusely illustrated guide provides students with valuable lessons on how to paint beautiful, realistic oil portraits. In an informative introduction, noted artist and teacher Wendon Blake explains clearly and effectively how to handle oil paints. Topics discussed include drying time, basic techniques, composition, lighting and drawing, and colors and mediums. He devotes six chapters to painting heads and facial features. Guidance on planning, composing, and lighting the portrait precedes brief discussions about oil sketching and drawing with pencil, charcoal and chalk. Portrait painter George Passantino has aptly illustrated the volume with 64 black-and-white and 57 full-color illustrations, which serve as step-by-step guides to painting a variety of male and female subjects. Examples include a blonde man, blonde woman, red-haired woman, dark-haired man and woman, African-American man, and an Asian woman. This inspiring and thoughtfully presented guide will be invaluable to art students and to anyone in search of a practical and easy-to-follow instruction manual brimming with expert advice and helpful hints. Paperback, 64 pages.ISBN:486402797. DOVER