Sight-Size Portraiture

By Nicholas Beer

ISBN:	9781847971821
PUBLISHED:	14/10/2010
PAGES:	96
BINDING:	Paperback
SIZE:	280x220 mm
INSIDE:	183 colour illustrations

In this practical book Nick Beer examines the sight-size portrait method, in which the artist stands back at a distance to view the picture and sitter side by side and to scale. Nicholas demonstrates the technique in a series of projects that culminate in portrait painting. The practice is fundamental to fine portraiture and has been used by Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence and John Singer Sargent among others.

There are also sections on the history of sight-size, early treatises on portraiture, and the 'philosophy' of seeing.

RRP: £14.99

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