Portrait composition

"Staten Island Man" by Chris Knight

-By Howard Lyon I love the Baroque. From Rubens and Caravaggio to Bernini and Bach. I love the passion and the movement. I was visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and was taking with my wife about composition in paintings and explained how the baroque movement took spaces that were

Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco explains how she uses geometric principles inspired by Renaissance masters for some of her painterly portraits.

In this video in the series you’ll learn about composition, color, emotion, painting techniques, use of lines, and other artistic elements artists used to produce their greatest works of art.…

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Explore the Notan concept and learn how to create striking portraits. Discover techniques to master the balance of light and dark in your artistic representations.

10 Simple Composition Tips - Portraits Refined

I started this portrait as a class demonstration, in order to let the students understand the color in a colouered light source condition. As for this portrait, it made more complex and fun with it's light source from the bottom and the texture on the mordel. To simplify the texture contents based on understanding the inner structure is one of the importance in paint/draw a portrait. Photo Ref: Yulia Shur

Composition can make or break a photograph. This is why it's important to understand it and know how to effectively and creatively use it. In essence,