Expressive PortraitsExpressive Portraits

Paint beautiful and expressive portraits by combining watercolor with other mediums!

What makes an eye-popping, eye-stopping portrait? It's all about contrast and the play of opposites, round shape against square, light against dark, transparent with opaque. Combining mediums allows you to push the inherent properties of each for a lively play of opposites. You'll be able to paint glorious lights, richer darks, intriguing texture and mysterious passages that create mood and a strong sense of place, space and character. Jean Pederson gives you all the advice and instruction you need to paint beautiful, expressive portraits filled with life and spirit. Let your portraits speak to the world!

Artistic renderings of people require great skill, even more so when the artist uses watercolors as his or her medium. The water-based composition of the paint interacts with the surface of the paper, brushes, and other colors more delicately than other media. It is rare that beginning watercolor artists will think to combine that medium with other paint bases. This book describes methods for combining paint media to break out of the traditional confines presented by watercolors in order to broaden the artistic approaches available when painting people. Tools, materials, and specific techniques are presented to help artists expand their capabilities. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Explains how to capture the complexity of the human face and figure in an instructional handbook that demonstrates how to convey the mood and emotion of a subject, covering every aspect of working with a variety of media, including compositional issues, combining media, capturing accurate skin tones, and accurate rendering of the human form. 20,000 first printing.
Explains how to capture the complexity of the human face and figure, and demonstrates how to convey the mood and emotion of subjects.