Keys to Painting Better Portraits - Hardcover

Dust jacket notes: "The human face is one of the most fascinating subjects to paint - and also one of themost challenging, for a successful portrait must be a good painting as well as an accurate likeness. But how do you establish the correct proportions? Model the head so that it looks three-dimensional? Paint a protruding nose? Mix colors to achieve the proper flesh tones? Express the sitter's personality? Professional artist and teacher Foster Caddell answers these and many more questions in a provocative new book, using the problem-solving approach with which he has helped so many readers in his other popular books, Keys to Successful Landscape Painting and Keys to Successful Color. Caddell begins by introducing his approach to portraiture, describing his studio environment, and explaining his materials and procedures for painting in oil and pastel. to demonstrated his working methods more clearly, he takes you, step by step, through the process of painting three typical portraits, two in oil and one in pastel. Then, in 30 'keys' to different painting problems, he analyzes the mistakes most commonly made by beginning and intermediate students, with each illustrated key showing a different painting error - and a good way to avoid it. The book closes with a gallery of the author's work, illustrating a variety of special portrait problems: the group portrait, posing children with pets, posthumous portraits, and self-portraits...." 144 pages, 8.25 x 11 inches, 80 color plates, 60 black-and-white illustrations, Index.