Creating a Self-Portrait - Hardcover

Coates, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0864381042 ISBN 13: 9780864381040

Publisher: Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

Briefly discusses the history of self-portraits, shows how to work with inks, pencil, pastels, and watercolors, and shares examples of self-portraits by a variety of artists

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Synopsis

The challenge of creating a likeness of the human face has preoccupied artists since the Classical Age. Durer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Cezanne are amongst the many great painters who produced famous self-portraits, using techniques that ranged from the fleeting sketch to the finished painting and represented every variation of materials and media. This study adopts a step-by-step approach to explain how individual artists using different media have built up their own self-portraits. While concentrating on watercolour, the text examines many styles and leads the student artist through a structured course in the use of media such as crayon, pencil, charcoal and oil.

Edition details

• Publisher: Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0864381042
• ISBN 13: 9780864381040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English