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Portrait and Figurative Art

Discover figurative art guidance and inspiration from master artists who share their experience and advice on drawing and painting portraits, self-portraits, and the figure.

For me, a portrait painting starts with an idea of a certain feeling I want in my painting. I was looking for a serious representation of a military man who is at the same time melancholic and shows his ...
"Life in Charcoal" is an unforgettably potent and extraordinary record of some of the wrecked and abandoned lives left scattered like jetsam in the wake of the American Dream.
I embarked on a four-year journey to paint a copy of “David with the Head of Goliath,” determined to make my copy as close as possible to the original, from technique to scale to materials.
Curated by artist Michael Fetherston, the show brings together a variety of aesthetic visions to one of the oldest and most celebrated genres of art.
Watch as art publisher Eric Rhoads interviews Carol Peebles on this episode of Art School Live!
Diana Tremaine shares how she created the large-scale figure painting "The Last Summer," including how she knows when a painting is finished.
American painter Michael Shane Neal uses two palettes for his portrait painting sessions; one belonged to the infamous artist ...
Enjoy this alla prima portrait demo by Kathie Wheeler, a classically trained fine art portrait painter in southwest Wisconsin, working primarily in oils.
When painting portraits, Annemarie Busschers strives to capture purity and, at the same time, a reality attained through looking intensely, without judgment, enlarging and enhancing the details she sees.
Nik Anikis embraces the moniker “neo-Renaissance painter,” meaning he takes Old Master methods and materials and applies them to ...
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