{"product_id":"painting-luminous-portraits-for-artists-an-essential-guide-to-painting-facial-features-fleshtones-light-and-form-paperback","title":"Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists: An Essential Guide to Painting Facial Features, Fleshtones, Light, and Form - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteve Forster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStephen Bauman\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complete guide to painting the portrait in oils.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Steve Forster, award-winning portrait artist and co-director of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, \u003ci\u003ePainting Luminous Portraits for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e presents essential lessons on how to paint a radiant likeness in oils in ten comprehensive chapters, each with skill-building exercises and QR codes to instructional videos: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscover fundamental materials, techniques, and basic anatomy and feature development for creating an underdrawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore color theory and color palette structures.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn painting techniques, including different shape and lighting approaches.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConsider creative strategies for portraits.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSee how digital painting techniques can be used to support and enhance traditional painting techniques.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for artists at all skill levels who want to explore capturing form and light through realistic painting techniques, \u003ci\u003ePainting Luminous Portraits for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e shows you how to capture the human portrait from a diverse range of perspectives, flesh tones, and light effects. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eFor Artists series\u003c\/b\u003e expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and representational art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso available from the series: \u003ci\u003eDrawing the Head for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEssential Human Anatomy for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFigure Drawing for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife Drawing for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDrawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDynamic Still Life for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFacial Expressions for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLandscape Painter's Workbook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlein Air Techniques for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSketching Techniques for Artists\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning artist \u003cb\u003eSteve Forster\u003c\/b\u003e received his MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art (NYAA), and also attended the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, where he met his wife, Rebecca. Since 2014 Steve and Rebecca have been Co-Directors of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art (LIAFA) in Glen Cove, New York. He currently teaches painting at LIAFA and previously taught painting at NYAA for almost 15 years. Steve blends digital painting and a love of traditional media to create unique contemporary portrait stories. His paintings are regularly exhibited in solo and group shows nationally. Steve was born in Boston, spent most of his life in central Florida, and now lives in Glen Cove, New York. Steve and Rebecca have three kids, Elijah, Evie, and William.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esteveforster.net\u003cbr\u003eInstagram: @steverforsterpaintings\u003cbr\u003eLong Island Academy of Fine Art: liafa.com\u003c\/p\u003eThe work of artist and teacher \u003cb\u003eStephen Bauman\u003c\/b\u003e focuses on the human figure. He has given drawing and painting workshops and demonstrations at various institutions throughout the United States and Europe, including the Long Island Academy of Art in New York, the Art Florida Academy in Miami, and at all three campuses of the Florence Academy of Art, in Sweden, Italy, and the U.S. Bauman's work, which has been exhibited and collected in the U.S., Europe, and China, received first place in the Imaginative Realism category of the 2014-2015 Art Renewal Center Salon, as well as a purchase prize for his painting \u003ci\u003eWhen I Was Young\u003c\/i\u003e, which was also featured on the cover of \u003ci\u003eFine Art Connoisseur\u003c\/i\u003e magazine in which he was profiled. His work has also been featured in numerous other publications, such as \u003ci\u003eLessons in Classical Drawing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFigure Drawing Atelier\u003c\/i\u003e by Juliette Aristides. 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