Painting Portraits in Oils: Capturing Character from Life by Rob Wareing
SKU: B-000078

Painting Portraits in Oils: Capturing Character from Life

Author: Rob Wareing
Special Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Condition: In very good condition. Clean and tidy pages. No writing. No dog ears. Tight binding. From a smoke free home.

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Rob Wareing’s Painting Portraits in Oils: Capturing Character from Life distills decades of studio practice into a hands-on masterclass for anyone who wants believable faces in wet paint. The 2021 first-edition hardback arrives fully illustrated beneath a crisp dust jacket, every spread brimming with step-by-step demos and colour mixes tested on real sitters.

Across 160 pages, Wareing tackles proportion, skin-tone temperature and the tricky art of capturing likeness without stiff photo-realism. Whether you paint adults, teens or self-portraits, his oil-painting techniques build confidence from first charcoal stroke to final varnish.

This copy is in very good, smoke-free condition—pages clean, binding tight, no prior owner’s marks or dog ears. At just under a kilo it feels substantial on the lap or easel tray, ideal as a reference you can open flat while mixing colour.

Gift-ready for the hobbyist upgrading from acrylics or the art student seeking a contemporary companion to classical manuals. Search Press Ltd’s large-format release remains a go-to portrait-artist resource and a durable addition to any art-instruction shelf.