Alyona Nickelsen

Colored Pencil Painting Portraits (eBook, ePUB)

Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture.

Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780385346283
• Artikelnr.: 48521291

Autorenporträt

ALYONA NICKELSEN is a contributing writer for Colored Pencil magazine and the author of Colored Pencil Painting Bible. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including American Artist, The Artist's Magazine, and American Art Collector. Nickelsen's paintings have been exhibited and won awards in prestigious national and international juried shows, such as Salmagundi Club, the American Artist Professional League, Audubon Artists, and the Colored Pencil Society of America. She is the creator and instructor of the Colored Pencil Painting Learning Center hosted on her website, www.brushandpencil.com.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
FOREWORD • vii
INTRODUCTION • 1
CHAPTER 1 • COLORED PENCIL REVOLUTION • 5
An exploration of new working surfaces, materials, and tools
CHAPTER 2 • THE RULES OF THE GAME • 27
The use of successful oil painting practices with the colored pencil medium
CHAPTER 3 • WORKING THE MEDIUM • 43
Innovative methods and techniques for painting with pencils
CHAPTER 4 • CONTROLLING COLOR • 55
Understanding the nature of color and the properties of pigments
CHAPTER 5 • PORTRAIT FACTS AND FICTION • 73
Ideas and solutions for composing a portrait 
CHAPTER 6 • PRACTICING THE ESSENTIALS • 89
Rendering key components of portraiture 
CHAPTER 7 • HOW TO KEEP FRIENDS AND MAKE CLIENTS HAPPY • 137
Hands-on examples of painting a colored pencil portrait