Portrait Revolution

Name: Portrait Revolution
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781910258507
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Inspiration, Tips and Techniques for Creating Portraits from the Artists of Julia Kay's Portrait Party

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Portrait Revolution emerges from Julia Kay's ambitious international project, Portrait Party, where hundreds of artists worldwide create portraits of each other using online photographs. This collaborative effort brings together diverse creators—ranging from oil painters and digital artists to amateurs and professionals—who share techniques, inspire friendships, and meet globally. The book highlights the rich variety of portraiture through hundreds of works in multiple media like pencil, charcoal, oils, watercolours, acrylics, pastels, prints, digital art, mosaic, and collage, presenting styles from realism to caricature. It also offers practical advice for artists on portrait creation both from photographs and life.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for artists and art enthusiasts interested in portraiture, collaborative art projects, and diverse artistic techniques.

Showcases 450 portraits by 200 artists, in a wide variety of media from oil painting to iPad art, watercolour to ballpoint, linocut to mosaic

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This book has grown out of an international collaborative project known as Julia Kay's Portrait Party, in which hundreds of artists from all over the world have come together online and made tens of thousands of portraits of each other, working from photographs posted online.

Along the way, oil painters, iPad artists, professional artists and beginners, bus drivers and architects have learned from and influenced each other, become friends and begun meeting up in person all over the world. Portrait Revolution draws on the work of many of these artists to show how the idea of a portrait can be interpreted in many different and creative ways, making portraiture accessible to anyone.

The book features hundreds of portraits in a huge variety of media, including drawing (pencil, charcoal), painting (oils, watercolours, acrylics), pastels, prints, digital media, mosaic and collage. It showcases different styles from realism to caricature, showing how artists approach and interpret the same subject in different ways.

Also included are helpful tips and considerations for creating a portrait from a photograph and drawing from life.

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"As a visual feast, it offers an endless source of inspiration." Paint and Draw

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781910258507

Publisher: Gemini Books Group Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pimpernel Press Ltd

Contributors:

Edited by Julia L. Kay

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 187.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Computing & Technology Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Julia L. Kay†is a painter, printmaker, photographer, muralist and digital artist who was born and raised in New York City. She has a BA in Photography from Wesleyan University and did graduate work at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She lives in San Francisco, where sheís had the opportunity to complete commissions and to exhibit locally and internationally. Julia launched her Portrait Party in 2010 when a personal project to draw herself every day for three years was drawing to a close.†By the time†Portrait Revolution†was published, Julia Kay's Portrait Party had grown to more than 1000 members from 50 countries who had made more than 50,000 portraits. The portraits in the book were curated from this pool of portraits. The group continues to thrive and welcomes new members.