DK Art School: Oil Painting Portraits - Softcover

Turn the pages of Oil Painting Portraits and discover an art course that will help you learn - simply but effectively - the many ways of creating portraits in this popular medium.Painting projects and exercises using fully annotated all-photographic sequences guide you from first brush strokes to final compositions. Portraits created before your eyes by professional artists show you in progressive stages how to master each new technique. Unique gallery pages then inspire you by displaying selected works of masters and contemporary artists. By the end of the course you will be able to paint portraits in oil with confidence and achieve accomplished results.

Intended for enthusiastic beginners and practising artists alike, this book shows you everything you need to know about still life. Easy-to-follow projects instruct you in essentials, such as how different type of materials work, and aim to inspire you to tackle more complex techniques. This book is one of a series of titles which range from acrylic figure to oil portrait and from pastel life to water-colour landscape. It offers close up step-by-step photographs which show still life being created before your eyes and it lets you into the secrets of how professional artists produce their work.