Reasons for Making Painting Portraits

Portraits of famous personalities have been made for a long time and these are usually kept in museums and art galleries. A few of the reasons for making a portrait are 1) through portrait you can preserve the identity of any famous personality or your loved ones for future generations. 2) by making a portrait you can achieve the likeness of features of the sitter. 3) portraits are helpful to establish a public image, in which you can emphasize the sitter’s status and qualities. 4) Portrait can be a remembrance of a person who is not present or dead. 5) Portraits also develop the painting skills of the painter. 6) Classical portraits can be recreated in contemporary settings. There are many more reasons to make a portrait, and these are liked by all.

Steps for painting a portrait

If you want to make painting portraits, then you should follow a few steps, such as selecting a photo with decent shadows and highlights. As a next step, you should sketch the image, in which you want to make the portrait. After sketching the image you should paint the eyes and then block in the darks and shadows. Further steps to be followed are blocking in mid-tone colors and then layering the lightest tones over the top. Then, defining detail areas and making adjustments should be done. After doing all these things, work on hair color and details and highlights, with all these steps your painting can be wrapped but before this background of the portrait should be painted.

Benefits of painting

If you get involved in an activity that you find interesting, such as painting, then it gives you pleasure, but apart from this, there are a few more benefits of painting. Through your painting, you can communicate and express yourself in a better way. Secondly, it can be a therapy, because it stimulates your creative mind and therefore you will be isolated from immediate reality and this will provide you with mental rest. Thirdly painting and drawing are the activities that stimulate your brain and hence your concentration and brain activity both are increased.

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