
Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists
An Essential Guide to Painting Facial Features, Fleshtones, Light, and Form
$35.99
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
5 August 2025
Summary
The complete guide to painting the portrait in oils.
From Steve Forster, award-winning portrait artist and co-director of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists presents essential lessons on how to paint a radiant likeness in oils in five comprehensive chapters, each with skill-building exercises and QR codes to instructional videos:
- Discover fundamental materials, techniques, and basic anatomy and feature development for cr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780760395622 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0760395624 |
| Author: | Steve Forster, Stephen Bauman |
| Publisher: | Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Rockport Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 5 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 730g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 383mm x 218mm |
| Series: | For Artists |
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“Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists is an ideal and unreservedly recommended pick.”
* Midwest Book Review *About The Author
Steve Forster
Award-winning artist Steve Forster received his MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art (NYAA), and also attended the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, where he met his wife, Rebecca. Since 2014 Steve and Rebecca have been Co-Directors of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art (LIAFA) in Glen Cove, New York. He currently teaches painting at LIAFA and previously taught painting at NYAA for almost 15 years. Steve blends digital painting and a love of traditional media to create unique contemporary portrait stories. His paintings are regularly exhibited in solo and group shows nationally. Steve was born in Boston, spent most of his life in central Florida, and now lives in Glen Cove, New York. Steve and Rebecca have three kids, Elijah, Evie, and William.
The work of artist and teacher Stephen Bauman focuses on the human figure. He has given drawing and painting workshops and demonstrations at various institutions throughout the United States and Europe, including the Long Island Academy of Art in New York, and the Art Florida Academy in Miami. Bauman’s work, which has been exhibited and collected in the U.S., Europe, and China, received first place in the Imaginative Realism category of the 2014-2015 Art Renewal Center Salon, as well as a purchase prize for his painting When I Was Young. His work has also been featured in numerous publications, such as Lessons in Classical Drawing and Figure Drawing Atelier by Juliette Aristides. He lives in Florence, Italy.
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