Drawing a Portrait

Demonstrates Eliot O'Hara's techniques and steps in drawing a portrait. Points out the factors to be considered in drawing the different features and angles of the face. Emphasizes that the personalities of faces differ and that portraits should show this difference., Eliot O'Hara demonstrates the basic steps involved in creating a likeness, using a minimum of lines and details. Introduces simple devices: the ability to judge distances by comparing an unknown with a known, and the ability to judge angles.
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Demonstrates Eliot O'Hara's techniques and steps in drawing a portrait. Points out the factors to be considered in drawing the different features and angles of the face. Emphasizes that the personalities of faces differ and that portraits should show this difference., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

More in Eliot O'Hara Art Series

  1. Painting Reflections In Water. 1947
  2. Painting An Abstraction 1950
  3. Oriental brushwork 1954
  4. Painting Trees With Eliot O'hara 1954
  5. Rhythm in paint. 1954
  6. Painting with calligraphy 1955
  7. Oriental Brushwork 1956
  8. Painting Clouds 1956
  9. Painting Crowds Of People 1956
  10. Painting a portrait 1957
  11. Painting Crowds of People 1957
  12. Painting Shadows 1957
  13. Painting with Calligraphy 1957
  14. Drawing A Portrait 1958
  15. Drawing a Portrait 1958
  16. Painting A Portrait 1958

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