Product Description
Learn to Paint People is a new title in HarperCollins’ successful Learn to Paint series, to be relaunched in June 98 with a brand-new page design and fresh new covers.
Including people in paintings literally brings them to life. In Learn to Paint People Sharon Finmark looks at all the essential aspects of painting people in their environment, using watercolour, acrylics, gouache and pastels. Several step-by-step demonstrations are included, featuring people at rest, in motion, in indoor settings and outside.
Learn to Paint People features:
• guidelines on choosing painting materials
• clear, practical advice on painting techniques
• a wide range of subjects, including single figures, groups of people, people in indoor settings and people outdoors
• stage-by-stage demonstration paintings
From the Back Cover
COLLINS • LEARN TO PAINT
Discover the excitement of 'painting people' under the expert guidance of well-known professional artist and teacher Sharon Finmark.
This easy-to-follow guide includes everything you need to know to get started on this absorbing pastime:
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Advice on equipment and materials
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Hints, tips and techniques
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Simple exercises
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Step-by-step demonstrations
About the Author
Sharon Finmark is an experienced teacher of painting at West Dean College and also runs private workshops in her own studio. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Academy Business Art Gallery. She has written several articles for The Artist and is the author of Learn to Paint Gardens in Watercolour, also published by HarperCollins.
