On Sight-Size Portraiture: 2nd Edition - Revised and Expanded : Book by Nicholas Beer

Aimed at artists, art historians, and anyone interested in portraiture, this fully revised and expanded book examines the sight-size portrait method, in which the artist stands back at a distance to view the picture and sitter side-by-side and to scale. Painter Nicholas Beer demonstrates the technique in a series of projects, as well as including sections on the history of sight-size, early treatises on portraiture, and the 'philosophy' of seeing.

This new edition also includes a 'starts and studies' section, which looks at a series of unfinished paintings in detail to analyse the thought processes and techniques of great artists.

• Size: 22.2 x 1 x 27.9 cm
• Format: 128pp, paperback
• ISBN-13: 978-1785002038
• Publisher: The Crowood Press