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On Sight-Size Portraiture

Author : Nicholas Beer
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 178500204X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book On Sight-Size Portraiture written by Nicholas Beer and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully revised and expanded book, Nicholas Beer examines the sight-size portrait method, in which the artist stands back at a distance to view the picture and sitter side-by-side and to scale. Nick demonstrates the technique in a series of projects that culminate in portrait painting. There are also sections on the history of sight-size, early treatises on portraiture, and the 'philosophy' of seeing. This new edition also includes a 'starts and studies' section, which looks at a series of unfinished paintings in detail to analyse the thought processes and techniques of great artists. Includes; an historical overview of the technique and introduction to the traditional language of drawing and painting; the limited palette and the philosophy of seeing; a step-by-step sequence with practical instruction, and examples of great masters ranging from Van Dyck to Sargent. Superbly illustrated with 152 colour illustrations including step-by-step sequence.

The Sight-Size Cast

Author : Darren Rousar
Publisher : Velatura Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780980045482
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Sight-Size Cast written by Darren Rousar and published by Velatura Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within The Sight-Size Cast is everything you ever wanted to know about Sight-Size cast drawing and painting, impressionistic seeing, and the ways in which many of the ateliers that stem from R. H. Ives Gammell and Richard Lack teach their students. You can learn how to see through Sight-Size with Darren Rousar's book, The Sight-Size Cast.

Cast Drawing Using the Sight-size Approach

Author : Darren R. Rousar
Publisher : Velatura Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780980045406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Cast Drawing Using the Sight-size Approach written by Darren R. Rousar and published by Velatura Press, LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, "Cast Drawing Using the Sight-Size Approach" teaches the student a systematic way to meet the challenges of drawing.

Drawing the Head for Artists

Author : Oliver Sin
Publisher : Quarry Books
ISBN 13 : 1631596934
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Drawing the Head for Artists written by Oliver Sin and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing the Head for Artists is the definitive modern guide to drawing the human head and portrait, featuring the classic mediums and methods of the Old Masters. Written by celebrated portrait artist and veteran studio instructor Oliver Sin, this richly informative and beautifully illustrated volume leads readers step-by-step through his method, from establishing a point of view to applying the timeless principles for creating an accurate and expressive likeness. Among the topics covered: Essential Materials & Techniques:Learn about necessary supplies and basic drawing techniques, including hatching, various stroke styles, and blending. Applying the Essentials: Explore how the concepts of sight-sizing, value, negative space/shapes, and plane changes factor into a portrait’s underlying structure. Techniques for Creating Depth & Dimension:Investigate how contrasting shapes, overlapping forms, and linear and atmospheric perspective are used to enhance depth. Creating the Illusion of Three Dimensions: Examine how edges—contours as well as changes in value—are used to convey three-dimensional form. Brimming with striking images that document all the phases and details of the author’s process, Drawing the Head for Artists inspires and informs all artists, from aspiring to accomplished, on how to successfully portray the physical subtleties and emotional eloquence of the human face. The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and representational art.

Drawing Realistic Pencil Portraits Step by Step

Author : Justin Maas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440354618
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Drawing Realistic Pencil Portraits Step by Step written by Justin Maas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As long as humans have been alive, we have drawn." ~Justin Maas Drawing is the most essential of all visual arts. Everyone, from sculptors to painters, draws in one form or another. It is also the simplest and most affordable form of artistic expression. All you need is a pencil and paper to make something magical. But to create a successful portrait, one must understand how to capture a person’s likeness--their spirit--and portray it in graphite. In Drawing Realistic Pencil Portraits, artist and teacher Justin Maas provides a step-by-step guide for both novice and experience portraitists looking to enhance their skillsets. His tried-and-true techniques for mastering the basics and accurately rendering proportion, placement and nuance when drawing the head and face will help you add energy and life to your drawings and create recognizable and moving portraits. In this book: • Lessons in drawing basics, including value, line, shadow, light and anatomy • How to work from both reference photographs and live models, plus tips for selecting your subjects • Step-by-step demos to create crucial features, such as eyes, ears, and hair • Methods for building successful portraits, including the grid method, the tracing method and the author's own Maas method • 15 detailed step-by-step portrait-drawing demos with subjects of different ages, genders and ethnicities • A gallery of additional portrait examples in both black-and-white and full color

Van Dyck

Author : Stijn Alsteens
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300212054
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Van Dyck written by Stijn Alsteens and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major examination of Anthony van Dyck's work as a portraitist and an essential resource on this aspect of his illustrious career This landmark volume is a comprehensive survey of the portrait drawings, paintings, and prints of Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), one of the most celebrated portraitists of all time. His supremely elegant style and ability to convey a sense of a sitter's inner life made him a favored portraitist among high-ranking figures and royalty across Europe, as well as among his fellow artists and art enthusiasts. Showcasing the full range of Van Dyck's fascinating international career with more than 100 works, this catalogue celebrates the artist's versatility, inventiveness, and influential approach to portraiture. Works include preparatory drawings and oil sketches that shed light on Van Dyck's working process, prints that allowed his work to reach a wider audience, and grand painted portraits. Some of the masterpieces are drawn from the exceptional holdings of The Frick Collection, while other works are presented here for the first time. Also included are drawings by some of Van Dyck's contemporaries--including his teacher Peter Paul Rubens--that illuminate the lineage of his working method. With insightful contributions by a team of international scholars, this unparalleled study of Van Dyck offers a compelling case for the distinctiveness and importance of the artist's work.

Close Reading

Author : Martin Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Close Reading written by Martin Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life and career of innovative contemporary artist Chuck Close, focusing on how he developed his pioneering ideas of scale, form, and color through the theme of portraiture.

Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner

Author : Mark Willenbrink
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440311447
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner written by Mark Willenbrink and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open this book as an absolute beginner, and come away as a proud portrait artist. Mark and Mary Willenbrink's Absolute Beginner books have helped thousands of novices tap into their inner artists. In this book, Mark and Mary help the beginning artist take on portraits, showing that absolutely anyone can draw faces. Their encouraging, easy-to-follow instruction style makes learning fun—you'll be amazed by how quickly you achieve impressive results. Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner covers everything from warming up with sketches, and capturing facial expressions, to framing your finished work. Page by page, you'll build the skills and confidence you need to draw lifelike portraits of your friends and family. What's Inside: • A simple two-stage approach to drawing portraits: sketch a likeness, then build up values to bring it to life • Step-by-step instruction for drawing eyes, noses, mouths, hairstyles, hands, glasses and other tricky elements • 13 complete demonstrations featuring a range of ages and ethnicities • Tips for evoking more personality in your portraits by using props, costumes and accessories

Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World

Author : Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354781
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World written by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.

The Eye of the Painter and the Elements of Beauty

Author : Andrew Loomis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Eye of the Painter and the Elements of Beauty written by Andrew Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sculpting From Life - A Studio Manual of the Sight-Size Method

Author : Jason Arkles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781430311560
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Sculpting From Life - A Studio Manual of the Sight-Size Method written by Jason Arkles and published by . This book was released on 2007-07-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first and only instructional manual written about the sight-size method as applied to sculpture. The blossoming Atelier Tradition in the United States and abroad has changed the way contemporary artists are trained, but scant attention had been paid to how figurative sculpture fits into this tradition, until now. 157 pages and over 200 illustrations guide the reader through every aspect of figurative clay modelling, including bas relief work, portraiture, and figure modeling, how to equip and outfit a studio, how to hire and use models, and more. The sight-size method is a strikingly different approach to clay sculpture than is offered by any other how-to manual. Combining optical principles and studio practice dating back five centuries and passed from Master to Apprentice right down to the Author himself, the sight-size method is a philosophy of perception as much as a powerful tool for the sculptor. Written for teachers and students alike.

Portraiture

Author : Joanna Woodall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719046148
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Portraiture written by Joanna Woodall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraiture, the most popular genre of painting, occupies a central position in the history of Western art. Despite this, its status within academic art theory is uncertain. This volume provides an introduction to major issues in its history.

The Social Machine

Author : Judith Donath
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262027011
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Social Machine written by Judith Donath and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New ways to design spaces for online interaction—and how they will change society. Computers were first conceived as “thinking machines,” but in the twenty-first century they have become social machines, online places where people meet friends, play games, and collaborate on projects. In this book, Judith Donath argues persuasively that for social media to become truly sociable media, we must design interfaces that reflect how we understand and respond to the social world. People and their actions are still harder to perceive online than face to face: interfaces are clunky, and we have less sense of other people's character and intentions, where they congregate, and what they do. Donath presents new approaches to creating interfaces for social interaction. She addresses such topics as visualizing social landscapes, conversations, and networks; depicting identity with knowledge markers and interaction history; delineating public and private space; and bringing the online world's open sociability into the physical world. Donath asks fundamental questions about how we want to live online and offers thought-provoking designs that explore radically new ways of interacting and communicating.

Hide/Seek

Author : Jonathan D. Katz
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588342999
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Hide/Seek written by Jonathan D. Katz and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entirely new interpretation of modern American portraiture based on the history of sexual difference. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to the present, Hide/Seek openly considers what has long been suppressed or tacitly ignored, even by the most progressive sectors of our society: the influence of gay and lesbian artists in creating American modernism. Hide/Seek shows how questions of gender and sexual identity dramatically shaped the artistic practices of influential American artists such as Thomas Eakins, Romaine Brooks, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many more—in addition to artists of more recent works such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, and Cass Bird. The authors argue that despite the late-nineteenth-century definition and legal codification of the “homosexual,” in reality, questions of sexuality always remained fluid and continually redefined by artists concerned with the act of portrayal. In particular, gay and lesbian artists—of but not fully in the society they portrayed—occupied a position of influential marginality, from which vantage point they crafted innovative and revolutionary ways of painting portraits. Their resistance to society's attempt to proscribe them forced them to develop new visual vocabularies by which to code, disguise, and thereby express their subjects' identities—and also their own. Bringing together for the first time new scholarship in the history of American sexuality and new research in American portraiture, Hide/Seek charts the heretofore hidden impact of gay and lesbian artists on American art and portraiture and creates the basis for the necessary reassessment of the careers of major American artists—both gay and straight—as well as of portraiture itself.

The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain

Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271048284
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines theater and portraiture as interrelated social practices in seventeenth-century Spain. Features visual images and cross-disciplinary readings of selected plays that employ the motif of the painted portrait to key dramatic and symbolic effect.

Portrayal and the Search for Identity

Author : Marcia Pointon
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780230729
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Portrayal and the Search for Identity written by Marcia Pointon and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are surrounded with portraits: from the cipher-like portrait of a president on a bank note to security pass photos; from images of politicians in the media to Facebook; from galleries exhibiting Titian or Leonardo to contemporary art deploying the self-image, as with Jeff Koons or Cindy Sherman. In antiquity portraiture was of major importance in the exercise of power. Today it remains not only a part of everyday life, but also a crucial way for artists to define themselves in relation to their environment and their contemporaries. In Portrayal and the Search for Identity, Marcia Pointon investigates how we view and understand portraiture as a genre and how portraits function as artworks within social and political networks. Likeness is never a straightforward matter, as we rarely have the subject of a portrait as a point of comparison. Featuring familiar canonical works and little-known portraits, Portrayal seeks to unsettle notions of portraiture as an art of convention, a reassuring reflection of social realities. Pointon invites readers to consider how identity is produced pictorially and where likeness is registered apart from in a face. In exploring these issues, she addresses wide-ranging problems such as the construction of masculinity in dress, representations of slaves, and self-portraiture in relation to mortality.

Self-Portrait

Author : Celia Paul
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374838
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Self-Portrait written by Celia Paul and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure—the painter Lucian Freud—and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art. One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the "invisible skeins between people," the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her. Self-Portrait is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art.