How to Paint Living Portraits Book

Award-winning artist Roberta Carter Clark has created a loyal following among painters with her timeless instruction. Her popular workshops have brought the joys of creating vivid portraits in oil and watercolor to countless artists. This is a classic compendium of her in-depth approach to portraiture. Clark takes artists through a series of 24 step-by-step exercises in drawing the face. She demonstrates how her detailed drawing exercises--accurately indicating features, highlights and shadows--offer the most practical approach to creating a lively, successful portrait. Dozens of additional techniques and exercises show how to work in different mediums, avoid common errors and capture a subject's unique likeness. Roberta Carter Clark's portraits are in the private collections of hundreds of families throughout the United States and in England. She is the author of Painting Vibrant Children's Portraits. She lives in Little Silver, New Jersey.