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Author:   Steve Forster ,  Stephen Bauman
Publisher:   Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Imprint:   Rockport Publishers Inc.
Weight:   0.649kg
ISBN:  

9780760395622

ISBN 10:   0760395624
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   28 August 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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CONTENTS Foreword by Stephen Bauman  About the Author  Introduction: Separating Your Drawing Problems from Your Color Problems Part I: Drawing as a Foundation for Color 1 | Getting Started with Drawing Drawing Materials Editing Your Photos Digitally Altered Photos 2 | Portrait Drawing Concepts: What to Draw Facial Armature Measuring and Proportion The Four Most Important Proportions Centerline of the Head Connecting to the Center Feature Centers Triangulation Wire Structure: An Invisible Roadmap Shape Design: An Intuitive Impression  3 | Portrait Drawing Techniques: How to Draw Using Graphite and Charcoal Together Charcoal Technique Early Stages of Drawing Ghosting Demonstration: Drawing for a Painting—Graphite and Charcoal Part II: Dynamic Flesh Color 4 | Getting Started with Painting Painting Materials My Color Choices Using Color Transparently vs. Opaquely Ébauche: Transitioning from Drawing to Painting 5 | Visualizing Color Concepts Munsell Color System  Hue, Value, and Chroma Hue as It Relates to Pigments and Warm/Cool Value as It Relates to Form Chroma as It Relates to Flesh Tone Hue as It Relates to Flesh Color Diversity Amplifying Color Information for Diversity A Way of Thinking About How to Create Color Diversity on the Palette 6 | Palette Strategies Creating a Flesh Palette Matrix Creating a Flesh Color Fiesta Color Flowers 7 | Alternative Techniques in Painting Underpainting Technique  Demonstration: Color Spot Painting Marbleizing Color Marbleizing vs. Blending Blending: The Agony and the Ecstasy  Demonstration: Alla Prima Abstract Start Holding On to Abstract Moments Brushstroke Variety 8 | Advanced Color Concepts Classical Flesh Model Ethnicity and Complexion Classical Flesh Model with Color Diversity and the Anatomy of Light Color Interpretation and Aesthetics 9 | Understanding Color and Light The Compressed Rainbow Atmospheric Conditions Compressed Rainbow with a Model Cool and Warm Color Planes of the Head Cinematic Lighting for Mood 10 | The Physical Realities of Paint Thick Paint Is Powerful Oiling Out and Glazing In A Test of Chroma Competing with a Modern Sense of Color Value and Chroma in Shadows  Resources Acknowledgments  Index

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Author Information

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.steveforster.net Instagram: @steverforsterpaintings Long Island Academy of Fine Art: liafa.comThe 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, the Art Florida Academy in Miami, and at all three campuses of the Florence Academy of Art, in Sweden, Italy, and the U.S. 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, which was also featured on the cover of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine in which he was profiled. His work has also been featured in numerous other publications, such as Lessons in Classical Drawing and Figure Drawing Atelier by Juliette Aristides. He lives in Florence, Italy.

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