Painting & Drawing Children

by John Norton

Book Overview

In this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, one of the great children's portraitists covers every aspect of painting and drawing children. He starts by showing how children's anatomy differs from that of adults and telling how to get to know the child. 59 black-and-white and 40 color illustrations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823035557
• ISBN13: 9780823035557
• Release Date: January 1950
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Painting and Drawing Children by John Norton.

The cover of this book is deceptive. The one I got had the portrait of an innocent child on the front. It said, "How to create children's portraits in pastel, watercolor, oil, charcoal, crayon, pen-and-ink, and pencil." I consider portraits as being the head and shoulders of a person... There are some well done portraits of children in the book. Unfortunately, to get to them you have to wade through pages of rough sketches of poorly clad or naked children. Who wants a painting with the focus on a little girl with with her knees widely spread apart????? I found it disturbing. I am throwing it away.

OUTSTANDING

~~~~~I am refining my drawing skills of children and this book is very helpful...and full of fine illustrations...

A very good reference

Being an amateur painter, I really enjoyed using this book in my work.