An Introduction to Painting the Nude: Anatomy, Form, Composition, Tone, Structure, Color

by David Carr

Instructs readers on how to master the skill of painting the nude, using both oils and watercolors, emphasizing the importance of planning a palette of colors with which to depict flesh tones and capture the play of light on the body.

Genres: Art

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

David Carr was a journalist who wrote for The New York Times. His peers often praised him for his humility and candor.

Carr overcame an addiction to cocaine and wrote about his experiences as an addict in The Night of the Gun. The New Yorker called it "bracingly honest memoir. In sharp and sometimes poetic prose, the author takes a detailed inventory of his years of drug addiction."

In February, 2015 he collapsed in the New York Times newsroom and was pronounced dead shortly after. He was married to Jill Carr and had three children.

Reviews

[Pete daPixie · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much covered in this book, and all put down in such useful step by step guide with pictures.