Portrait Painting Atelier

Portrait Painting Atelier
By Suzanne Brooker; Foreword by Domenic Cretara
Watson-Guptill

Richly illustrated with the work of masters such as Millet, Géricault, and van Gogh, as well as some of today’s leading portrait artists—and featuring seven detailed step-by-step portrait demonstrations— this comprehensive book covers the concepts and techniques of traditional portraiture.

Readers will find valuable instruction in paint mediums from classic oil-based to alkyd-based, the interactive principles of composition and photograph-based composition, and the anatomy of the human face and the key relationships among its features.  208 pages


SUZANNE BROOKER received her BFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1979, attended by invitation the Whitney Museum Independent Study program in New York, and pursued her drawing and painting studies at the School of Visual Arts. Brooker has taught drawing and painting at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington since 1999.