Drawing Portraits

A Practical Course for Artists

Barrington Barber

9781789503340

160 pages

Arcturus Publishing Limited

Paperback / softback $14.99

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Overview

A wide-ranging guide to a key aspect of art, featuring chapters on group and family portraits, self-portraits and caricatures.

Written by one of the world's leading practical art instructors.

Contains approximately 22,000 words.

Author Bio

Born 1934, Barrington was educated at Hampton Grammar School and later Twickenham Art Schoo for which he received a National Diploma of Design. He then practised as an illustrator (Saxon Artist) and Graphic Designer, was Art Director at Ogilvie & Mather and S.H. Bensons, and was a lecturer in Graphic Design at Ealing Art School. Other credits include freelance work, designer, illustrator, animator and painter at Augustine Studios. He was awarded a one man exhibition in 2000 at St. Oswald Studios, and also exhibited in Putney in 2003 and Cork Street in 2004. He was Head of Art at St James's Independent Schools. He now paints, draws, writes about art, and enjoys sports, walking, philosophy and meditation.