About this item
Make creating portraits fun and easy with Playful Painting: People. You'll sharpen your skills with 16 step-by-step projects that will have you creating beautiful portraits of women and men, animals, and nature motifs. Whether you're an aspiring, a beginning, or a more advanced artist, you'll get to work with affordable, approachable tools, such as colored pencil, gouache, watercolor, pen and ink, and pencil, to create your own portraits. Every portrait is customizable, allowing you to add your own personal embellishments. Pick up a variety of tips and techniques that will show you how to paint whimsical patterns, accessories, and famous faces. There's even a section devoted to learning how to paint a self-portrait.Playful Painting: People isn't just a collection of skills to learn; it's a fun, fresh take on an age-old art form.
About the Author
Sarah Walsh is an internationally published illustrator who's project range spans from picture books, apparel, home decor and greeting cards to name a few. Her work has also been featured on Creative Pep Talk, Buzzfeed & The Jealous Curator. Sarah has been a working artist since 2001, starting out as a designer/illustrator hybrid at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. In 2013 she branched off solo style into the freelance world after connecting with an art agent named Lilla Rogers. Bright color, fashion, mid century design, the 80's, fantasy, hand lettering, world culture & folk art art are some of the elements that inform her work. Sarah's been fortunate enough to collaborate with clients like Chronicle, Blue Q, Nosy Crow, The Guardian, & Frankie Magazine. Writing and illustrating a children's book or working with a fashion designer to create a haute couture clothing line are two of her dream projects! When Sarah isn't busy doing client work she fills her sketchbook with personal paintings or creates products such as art prints, enamel pins & pillows for Tigersheep Friends, with her husband Colin Walsh, a fellow illustrator. You can find her work at Sarahwalshmakesthings.com or https://www.etsy.com/shop/Tigersheepfriends
