Category: Portrait Painting
Portraits of the Presidents: The National Portrait Gallery (Presidential Portraits)
| February 6, 2012 | Posted by admin under Portrait Painting |
One of the most visited galleries of the National Portrait Gallery is “America’s Presidents”, the collection of portraits of the elected leaders of the United States that is at the heart of the Gallery’s mission to tell the American story through the individuals who have shaped it. More than a visual record of the holders…
Create Realistic Portraits: African, Caribbean & African-American Faces
| June 8, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Portrait Painting |
One of the most frequently asked questions from beginning painters is how to mix flesh tones, which usually means a Caucasian flesh tone. Painting a portrait of a subject of African, Caribbean or African-American descent isn’t a simple matter of darkening that Caucasian formula. The color ranges, as well as basic facial features, are markedly…
Self-portraits with a Twist
| June 7, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Portrait Painting |
The Masters left us hundreds of self-portraits such as this one by Goya. Rembrandt produced dozen of them which chronicle his life from his twenties through to old age. Whole exhibitions have been devoted to the self-portraits of Pierre Renoir – so why the fascination with ourselves. In art college students were urged to create…
Checking Proportions, Measurements & Angles While Drawing or Painting Portraits
| June 6, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Portrait Painting |
Proportions, measurements and angles are important in every painting – but doubly important in portrait painting. If these elements are incorrect, the face will look odd and won’t resemble your model, which is critically important if you’re painting a commissioned work. Try some of these tips as you work on your initial drawing and as…
Facing Details in Portrait Painting: Eyes, Noses, and the Mouth
| June 6, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Portrait Painting |
Eyes Many beginners start by drawing the lids or the iris of the eye. Instead, start with the shape of the white, or the sphere, of the eye. Next, draw the eyelids – as you do, notice that the lower lid has a different contour from the upper lid and that the upper lid casts…
Face Foundations: How to Draw and Paint a Human Face Realistically
| June 5, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Portrait Painting |
As with any part of the human body, drawing and painting the human face realistically is dependent on your knowledge of the underlying bone structure. The human skull is a very familiar image to most people. From it you will gain the overall shape of your subject’s head and details, such as the supercilliary (eyebrow)…
Portrait Painting: an Introduction to Painting People
| June 4, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Portrait Painting |
Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait, 1500 The Oxford Dictionary describes a portrait as a likeness of person or animal made by drawing, painting, or photography. This straightforward definition might be suitable for describing a photographic portrait but it falls short in adequately describing the artistic process of portraiture. “Every time I paint a portrait I lose a…
Cyril Leeper and the Ancient and Honorable Tradition of Portrait Painting
| March 14, 2011 | Posted by admin under Famous Painters, Portrait Painting |
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Born in Toronto, Ontario Canada, Cyril Leeper is one of a handful of painters plying a trade older than art galleries. His is an art is based upon more than twenty-one years of formal training. From the age of eight, he began to learn and draw and paint at the feet of Lawren Harris and…
Portrait of a Child Holding a Rattle by Niels Rode
| March 1, 2010 | Posted by admin under Famous Paintings, Portrait Painting |
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Portrait of a Child Holding a Rattle was painted by the Danish Rococo artist Niels Rode (1732-94) at a time when the Rococo style had almost come to an end in France, but was still flourishing in Denmark. Rode was taught by Johann Georg Ziesenis, a recognized Danish Rococo painter who introduced him to other…
