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Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces

A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop
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Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces by Jane Davenport is an inspiring guide for artists interested in learning how to create expressive and imaginative portraits. It combines practical step-by-step techniques with creative insights, helping readers explore mixed media and develop their artistic style. This book is tailored to both beginners and experienced artists, offering an engaging journey into the world of drawing and painting.
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This book may appeal to you if you're passionate about learning to create expressive, captivating portraits and want to explore techniques that enhance your artistic style. Perfect for artists of all levels, it offers step-by-step guidance and vibrant illustrations that ignite creativity and confidence in your drawing and painting skills.

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Now you can learn to draw elegant, fashion illustration-style faces in pencil, marker, pen, watercolor, and many more mediums in the guided lessons of Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces.

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Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration-style faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist and popular international workshop instructor, known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy, and encouraging style.

In this book, she guides you step-by-step through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skin tones, playing with bright colours, shading, highlighting, and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed media portraits.

Master a variety of techniques that employ pencil, marker, pen, watercolour, acrylic paint, ink, pastel, and ephemera as you happily dance your way through the exercises in this brilliant guide.

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Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces by Jane Davenport provides aspiring artists with an in-depth guide to creating expressive, mixed-media portraits. Reviews praise the book's step-by-step exercises for their clarity and approachability, making it ideal for readers wanting to master the art of drawing faces. Davenport's engaging style and detailed exploration of art materials, coupled with her background in fashion illustration, make this book particularly appealing to young creatives looking to develop their skills.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781592539864

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 January 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 254.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 522g

Pages: 136

About the Author

Jane Davenport is a professional Artist, prize-winning author, popular Workshop Leader and her Online Schools are home to thousands of creatives from all around the world. Jane's artwork has featured in magazines, books, tv and movies. She designs signature art products, hosts art retreats in Byron Bay, Bali and Paris and her first mixed-media technique book is Drawing and Painting Faces.

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