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Figure Painting in Oil
Handy, well-written guide shows how to paint the nude figure in an easy-to-follow series of 24 fully illustrated projects. Materials and equipment; anatomy, proportion; utilization of hues, tones and values; plus how to paint major parts of body: head, arms, hands, legs, feet and torso from front and back. Over 190 illus., 33 in full color. Introduction. Suggested Reading.
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1973
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March 11, 2009
One more Graves book i have, and actually one of the first painting books i ever got.
Very well laid out, breaks out the head in pieces and takes on typical problems of shading the facial features. Really helped me and still does to this day, simple things like the darkest line of reflected color deep within the creases of top and bottom lip coming together, the off color of the eye, the darkening planes under the bottom lip and dark holey regions at the edges of the mouth, lots of good stuff. (he talks about it way better than i ever could), well worth a look and i think well worth a buy.
See what you think, his color section is also pretty well thought out.
Very well laid out, breaks out the head in pieces and takes on typical problems of shading the facial features. Really helped me and still does to this day, simple things like the darkest line of reflected color deep within the creases of top and bottom lip coming together, the off color of the eye, the darkening planes under the bottom lip and dark holey regions at the edges of the mouth, lots of good stuff. (he talks about it way better than i ever could), well worth a look and i think well worth a buy.
See what you think, his color section is also pretty well thought out.
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