Make Preliminary Drawings The First Step In Your Portrait Process and Get the Painting Right the First Time

Every portrait painting is the result of a series of steps. Some artists have fewer steps than others, and most artists are eager to grab their paints and dive right into the color process. But those who simply pose their model and start painting are taking a lot of chances, such as improperly placing the model on the canvas or discovering a more interesting pose once you’ve already begun. After many hours of your hard work and your model’s patient posing, you don’t want to wipe it all off and start over again.
That’s why preliminary drawings are such an effective portrait tool because they help solve problems before they happen. Drawings let you map out your subject and get acquainted with all the hidden things you’ll need to know about him or her. Take bone structure, for instance — every skull is similar, but there are always subtle variations that can make a big difference in the portrait. You must be as aware of the unseen side of your subject as you are of the visible side. If you’re guessing, the viewer will know it.
Use drawings to get to know your subject before you begin the actual portrait. For some artists this may take no more than a few sketches and suggested values.
This kind of familiarity also pays off because with a live model, no matter how good a model he or she is, your subject is frequently changing. There are many muscles in the human head, more than in any other part of the body, and nearly all of them move when the expression changes on the subject’s face. If you can learn some thing about what muscles made the expression you want, then you can compensate for subtle changes (A smile, for instance, consists of much more than just upturned corners of the mouth.)
Put a little preparation into each portrait you do by starting off with preliminary drawings. You’ll soon find that a little investment up front can save you a lot of trouble later on, and it brings an important step closer to making your portraits the best they can be.
I have a good friend, Frank, who has wonderful bone structure. Every bone is right up front where I can see it. I snapped two photos of him, not pretty, smiley photos, but character studies. I wanted to show his bones and wrinkles off to their greatest advantage.
Portrait Pointer: when you can’t find a model who is willing to sit for several hours, go for photography. Be ready with your camera when a great face comes your way. Just remember, don’t just copy the photo, study the bone structure and value patterns the same as you would when using a live model. Measuring is very necessary. Remember, every skull is different. Don’t generalize. Drawing is not only necessary to portraiture but a beautiful and fun form of ArtsB2C.
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Household choose to add flowers painting scene contemporary feeling

Oil painting and decorate a style to coordinate, contracted with the bedroom of contemporary feeling strong oil painting will make the room full of vitality, optional without the casing outside the oil painting. Europe type and classic bedroom realistic style choice oil painting, such as portrait, landscape, etc. The best and the casing outside the anaglyph, appear gorgeous, elegant.

A, oil painting and decorate a style to coordinate, contracted with the bedroom of contemporary feeling strong oil painting will make the room full of vitality, optional without the casing outside the oil painting. Europe type and classic bedroom realistic style choice oil painting, such as portrait, landscape, etc. The best and the casing outside the anaglyph, appear gorgeous, elegant.

Second, the color and indoor metope furniture furnishings have echo, do not appear isolated. If it is dark and sedate furniture style, painting will choose and coordination of of primitive simplicity of simple but elegant paintings. If it is bright and concise furniture and decoration, best choice and lively, warm and avant-garde, abstract class.

Third, the most important, of course, is to choose your own, compared to everything else is secondary, can bring you mind cheerful and relaxation is the great value of the oil painting.

Four, try to choose hand-painted oil painting, now have the color printing market fill handmade oil paintings, a long time will oxidation change color. From the general picture brush can distinguish: hand-painted images of oil painting are obviously the concave-convex feeling greatly, and the screen printing smooth, just with oil paints for local colouring.
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Mediterranean oil painting win the market favour

Nature always can bring us a surprise and joy. Face the heaven and earth and heaven, with vast life, we always can open up and tell the heart emotions, and even face to yourself, face difficulties in life. It allows us to admire its grand in, the more we face the attitude of the church life, cherish life, open mind. This is the charm of mountain, is the glamour of the sea, as we find, enjoy the challenge of life in one side, let us follow the footsteps of painter, go to appreciate such deep feeling, to experience the author want to tell our words, surpassing ourselves and our memory of the record of the world. Mediterranean oil painting beautiful coast and rock left us deep impression, also let us from such a picture of a find that wonderful feeling. Fascinating, full of fantastic color.

The Mediterranean landscape oil painting CongShiTing waves ", with PangPai spectacular sea one scene, vivid reproduce the CongShiTing waves roared to the case. Plausible, and the winds will come, quiet beach sparked a blast waves. Spray turned up on, hit the white foam, round and round to distant go far. Big picture visual impact, whole is tonal unification, downy, depicts delicate, do not break real feelings.

The Mediterranean garden corridor oil painting CongShiTing ", the picture is a description of the famous CongShiTing coast one horn, the shore for odd rocks, the water of the sea BiLanSe endless. Nearby, waves on the shore aroused little splash flap, the distance, ShuiTianYiSe, blue sky, white clouds and the lake distinct. The overall picture composition vision, atmospheric and not lose the depict of detail, perfect showed CongShiTing characteristics, worth having.

The human body painting sculpture exhibition

A set of human body oil paintings and sculpture exhibition will work on July 18, to aug. 4,, in jinhan art district 11 floor (east Lai exhibition hall, adopt hall hall) held. This exhibition including more than XieChu development area, Kennedy, guan zeju LaiZhengYun, WangJunYing, the "collection class edition of set limit to" oil painting copies and clock of human art of the original source volunteers sculpture.
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JiPeng oil painting exhibition held the truth

This exhibition by the China artist association, Chinese painting art committee of tsinghua university academy of fine arts institute of contemporary art, people's university culture art planning and promotion sponsored by, was the wind art museum, "illustrated · China today art magazine undertaking, will showcase artists JiPeng representative work more than 40 pieces. Graduated from central academy of fine arts of dr. JiPeng, is in recent years in China on special rookie, its work to color is rich, feeling exquisite articles, her new style and unique creativity to get inside the consistent high praise.

"Cartoon green grass cows oil painting" and "A black of strong horse oil painting" can be JiPeng art of key words. This kind of life is not that high spiritual life, also is not a popular culture city life of representation, but with the color show the artist's physical sense, this kind of feeling from daily life experience of the painter. Looks great works, specifically felt the life breath, also felt for the unique experience life painter. JiPeng in the works, we can feel the delicate and warm, seems to smell an elegant fragrant smell. It's not completely is a kind of literature of imagination, in the abstract, the founder of the socialist SiJiNa kangding, colour is a voice, each color has a special sound.

JiPeng with a kind of organic geometrical modelling, in pop and the abstract a free walk to her the pursuit of "happy life". This kind of happy life actually is not worldly fame and wealth, but to the grasp of the destiny. The artist is the average person, for ordinary daily life, everyone has been too much trouble and many helpless, but JiPengZai painting process, can get the canvas of freedom. This freedom, is her everyday life into the picture of the scene choose freedom, also her performance on the picture to the visual image of the freedom. Thus, she obtained a master self destiny, to express themselves creative happy.

Watch JiPeng works, can see, though, she also has some modern city landscape works to express, the landscape of sex work retained the moderate of depth, and David hockney's California sunshine scenery similar, has a clear grace. But JiPeng works of the main themes is still life and industrial products, it is a kind of close observation and performance. This kind of close, provides a more detailed watch, not only is modelling details, but also the bright color, and in the distance, the modelling of the boundary of the outline and colour is easy to fall into the fuzzy. More specifically, the color clear and saturation, color and color of the boundary line is JiPeng focus of concern, and she didn't want to will be personal visual experience into a mass of fuzzy impression, but hope in the canvas restructure the visual experience, giving it a kind of subjective rational structure. It was here, I saw the JiPeng are training in the art history happened effect, a visual image from the classified and reconstruction of ability.

And most contemporary artists is different, JiPeng not trying to express their feminism value orientation, her works not from the point of view of social ideology, launched feminist appeal. But in her works, from the delicate and exquisite form color combination to turn, and we can see an elegant breath from the picture out sadly, this is a kind of women own smell painter. JiPeng works in the contemporary Chinese woman in the creation of the painter, expand the abstract painting to the development of a wing, will of the history of the accomplishment and feel the rationalization of introducing among them, it is worthy of our attention.