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PORTRAITS Right From the Start

PORTRAITS Right from the Start 2016 covers the process of portrait painting from start to finish working from a model or from photographs. It’s a must for anyone interested in depicting people. The book describes how to draw a head from any viewpoint with fascinating insights and images on features showing how they appear from all viewpoints. Also on mixing flesh colors and how to draw and paint complete figure portraits. The book gives you the means to become a pro at painting people by just working through the lessons in your own time at home! (Available through this websites orderform). The companion book FIGURES RIGHT FROM THE START is in the works.

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Watercolor Right from the Start

Watercolor Right from the Start
(1992) Watson-Guptill
This seasoned best seller provides progressive lessons in seeing and understanding painting and is ideal for painters of all levels including beginners and teachers. Readers are given the KEYS TO SEEING related to the geometric forms from which everything around us is comprised. Lessons are presented in the form of CLEAR. STEP BY STEP DEMONSTRATIONS covering basic techniques, composition and concept so readers learn at home as they paint landscapes, seascapes, florals, buildings and still life. The chapter on PERSPECTIVE is particularly clearly explained and illustrated.

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