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Based on the popular international collaborative art project, this guide to creating portraiture in multiple mediums and styles teams hundreds of portraits with tips and insights on the artistic process. The human face is one of the most important subjects for artists, no matter their chosen medium. Pulling from 50,000 works of portraiture created by the artists of the international online collaborative project Julia Kay's Portrait Party, Portrait Revolution presents a new look at this topic - one that doesn't limit itself to one medium, one style, one technique, or one artist. By presenting portraits in pencil, pen, charcoal, oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, digital media, collage, and more, Julia Kay and co. demonstrate the limitless possibilities available to aspiring artists or even to professional artists who are looking to expand creatively.Along with works in almost every conceivable medium, Portrait Revolution shines a spotlight on different portrait-making techniques and styles (featuring everything from realism to abstraction) . With tips, insights, and recommendations from accomplished portrait artists from around the globe, this all-in-one inspiration resource provides everything you'll need to kick-start your own portrait-making adventure.
About the Author
Julia L. Kay is an artist, author, analyst and teacher of the Alexander Technique.
The main subjects of her art are expressionistic portraits of humans and animals and semi-abstract plant forms. Her main media are acrylic paint and iPad but she also works in most drawing media, watercolor, oil, collage, and photography. She loves to experiment and learn new ways to make things, including drawing with her eyes closed, the pencil between her toes, and using her nose on her iPad. Her style ranges from realistic to abstract, and she has a taste for vivid color, the patterns of light and shadow and strong expression of emotion.
From 2007 to 2010, the main focus of her art was her Daily Portrait Project (DPP) in which she made a portrait of herself every day. Through thick and thin of life: job changes, family illness, travel in distant countries, she explored different interpretations of the concept of self-portrait and didn't miss a single day.
As the the DPP was winding to a close, she started Julia Kay's Portrait Party (JKPP) , an international, online, community of artists who make portraits of each other in every imaginable media and style. Since the group started in 2010, the members have made more than 50,000 portraits of each other. You can follow JKPP
on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/
or facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliakaysportraitparty/
Julia's book "Portrait Revolution" features 450 portraits by the members of JKPP in a wide range of media, style, and themes, along with technical tips and inspiring quotes. It's a great resource for anyone interested in making portraits, or looking at art, or thinking about the human condition.
Julia's current project is the Templeton Commission, a large painting in her Sun Dances series of semi-abstract works based on the shadows cast by her split-leaf philodendron. You can follow Julia's current work
on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliakay/
on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StudioJuliaKay/
You can find links to her previous work on her homepage:
http://studiojuliakay.com
