Beautiful Portrait Painting in Oils: Keys to Mastering Diverse Skin Tones and More

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How to paint oil portraits like the Old Masters

Mona Lisa. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Madame X. The infinite variety and great thing about humankind–like the mysteries in the back of sparkling eyes, a sly smile or an averted gaze–has captivated artists since the beginning of time. This expanded edition of Chris Saper’s best-selling guide, Classic Portrait Painting in Oils, reveals keys for mastering how to paint beautiful portraits in oil to create soulful artistic endeavors. Through easy-to-follow lessons and expert oil painting tips and techniques, you’ll be able to find secrets for working from life, the usage of reference photos and more to create rich, realistic portraits imbued with timeless character.

  • 14 step by step demonstrations teach how to paint 7 diverse subjects of varying skin tones from life and from photographic reference
  • Additional exercises reveal expert oil painting techniques for defining facial details, like eyes, mouths, wrinkles, facial hair and eyeglasses
  • Professional tips for working from life, including ideal session times, posing, seeing and mixing color and even how to work with children
  • The basics of the usage of natural, artificial, creative and “Rembrandt” lighting to light your subject and convey a mood
  • Expanded key concepts of “perfect practice,” the importance of continuously painting subjects in real time and an insistence on excellent photographic reference material, including a checklist for how to take–and self-edit–your own quality photos
  • New material on how to approach and execute paid commissions, including step by step demonstrations for painting both corporate and circle of relatives subjects

Through Saper’s universal techniques, painters of all skill levels will discover ways to render more realistic portraits of each subject they paint, with predictable and joyful results.

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