Expressive Portraits

This guide will give you the help you need to paint powerful likenesses with a rich color palette by combining easy to follow how-to watercolor techniques with other creative media for brushwork, edges, glazing, skin tones, lifting, layering and more.

- Mixing media creates effects that can't be achieved in other ways
- Award-winning author with more than 20 years experience uses a variety of materials
- Demonstrations include paper, brushes, watercolors, pencils, pastels, acrylics and more

This book allows readers to enjoy achieving interesting, expressive art that exudes character and mood. The author shows how to paint glorious lights, rich darks, intriguing textures and mysterious passages. Here is all the instruction needed to paint with life and spirit for a wide range of ages and ethnicities.