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Discover a simple approach to capturing a world of beautiful skin tones
Chris Saper takes the mystery and guesswork out of portrait painting while leaving its joy fully intact. Continuing the exploration started in the her first book, Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light, this sequel offers step-by-step demonstrations that cover an even wider range of ethnic groups and ages. You'll get professional advice on working from life, using reference photos, and combining the two approaches to create realistic likenesses that say something about the way you view an individual's unique beauty and character. Inside you'll find:
- A series of 14 step-by-step demonstrations of 7 diverse subjects painted from life and from photos that illustrate the advantages of each approach
Techniques for seeing and recording accurate colors at live sittings, and retaining that accuracy when working from photographic references - Tips on posing and lighting your subjects using both artificial and natural light sources
- Expert advice for shooting, selecting and working from reference photographs, including how to compose dynamic multiple-subject portraits
- Techniques for painting eyes, eyeglasses, mouths, wrinkles and other defining details
About the Author
Chris Saper is a portrait artist, teacher and author of Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light, as well as two ArtistsNetwork.TV workshops, "Painting Oil Portraits in Warm Light with Chris Saper" and "Capturing the Beauty of Monochrome Oil Portraits." As a faculty member of the Portrait Society of America, she has participated in many classes, panels, critiques and countless portfolio reviews, developing a solid insight into the obstacles that keep artists from seeing and painting skin tones well. She has also written and published two books designed to support specific artist workshop courses she?s developed. Visit her website at www.ChrisSaper.com. Saper lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Classic Portrait Painting in Oils, Mar 20 2012
By Richard J. Beck "Doc Beck" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Classic Portrait Painting in Oils: Keys to Mastering Diverse Skin Tones (Hardcover)
I gave this book the highest rating that I could because it is the best book on the subject I have found. I am an oil-painting enthusiast, and after 10 years or so, I am pursuing human portraiture. This book is a very quick study and reference guide to producting good portraits. It is very well written and, for such an easy read, it is comprehensive. One learns a wide range of skills, from multi-racial portraits to separate - and immensely helpful - chapters on improving photographic skills for the purpose of their incorporation into the portrait painting process; as well as painting details, such as eyeglasses or age-related facial changes (e.g. wrinkles in persons who are elderly). Included in the book are stages of painting in each subject area, showing examples of each stage. The author, Chris Saper is an outstanding artist who is an outstanding teacher as well. I will rely on this book as a reference for all the portraits that I do in the future. Dr. Richard Beck
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Hugely disappointing!, May 26 2012
By JetsonJoe "jetsonjoe" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Classic Portrait Painting in Oils: Keys to Mastering Diverse Skin Tones (Hardcover)
Well...have owned this for a short while...as well formatted for the iPad...that is about all i have to say that is good.It is a hugely disappointing book on portrait painting ...and the quality of painting presented is so mediocre...and that is being kind.
Definitely for the conservative and safe who want to paint the baby or grandmothers portrait. But it is not a viable source book of information.
But is does deliver what it promises to deliver in it's introduction...so for that it is okay...but is sure will not rock your socks off...I give it a very very generous 2 out of 5...
if bland was a category I would have chosen that. Sorry to be harsh...but it really disappointed...What is worse is that i bought the Kindle version and I cannot return it!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Portrait Painting in Oils, May 25 2012
By Charlotte Seigel "Charlotte" - Published on Amazon.com
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I don't usually write reviews, but wanted to inform others what a really good book this. Chris Saper is a great author and teacher as well as a great artist.She is able to convey to the reader, such good instructions for the demonstrations (and there are many) through out the book. I have a library full
of instructional book for art, drawing, oil painting, etc., but find this book to be one of the best I've read. If you're unsure about purchasing this
book, don't be. I'm sure you'll find this book to be as informative as I have.
Charlt
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