Portrait paintings reflect the emotions of a person. Every portrait reflects the personality of a person. The eyes of the person in the portrait, tells a story by itself. In fact, a portrait can be called perfect only when the artist is able to capture the emotions, in the eyes of the person, perfectly into the portrait. It is not an easy task and every artist puts in a lot of effort to make their portraits look beautiful as well as real.

An expert artist can very successfully reflect the personality of a person through his portrait. He captures everything perfectly into the portrait right from the muscle tone and skull structure to the perfect smile. To make the portrait paintings perfect, an artist first studies his/her subject very closely. He/she very deeply studies the character and personality of the person whose portrait is being made. He/she studies the emotions reflected by the eyes and smile of the subject. The artists very carefully study the structure of the features too.

After close study of the subject, the artists start working on the portrait paintings. They put in all their efforts to fill life into the portrait and make it look real. They try to reflect the different emotions, like happiness, anger, excitement etc., present in the subject, through the portrait. All the qualities which are required to make a portrait look beautiful are present in Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’. That’s the reason why it is considered as one of the most beautiful portrait paintings painted till date.

http://www.stefano-campitelli-portrait-and-nude-painting.com/ is a website of Stefano Campitelli, an Italian artist from Rome shows his female and male nude drawings and paintings, male nude etching prints, lifelike oil portraits, nude male soft-ground etchings and aquatint prints. He also teaches his art techniques. He has been painting and drawing for more than 15 years. Also etching is one of his great passions. In this virtual art gallery you will also find nude drawings, etching prints and aquatints.

Do you need information about art techniques? Here you will find some tips especially about oil painting, drawing and etching. Generally, figure painting is mainly focused on the female figure, but here male nude painting has an important place. Naturally other subjects as flowers and landscapes are represented as well.

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First of all, the action line represents the figure’s flow of motion. This is particularly important in portraying cats. Artists experienced in capturing a cat’s movement in drawing begin their composition doodling with waves of lines on their paper or canvas, trying to imagine a suitable movement or action for their figure. Finding the right line of action is crucial to their drawing as they consider it the “mother of all foundations.”

To artists, a lines of action is never be complicated, lest it makes the figure awkward and mangled. Bear in mind that cats move, and shall always be expected to move, in a very graceful manner that when captured on film and viewed frame by frame, it would be like the cat were posing for a magazine cover or centerfold. Do also consider the fluidity of the cat’s movement. The gracefulness of its movement seems to provide an uncanny feeling of predictability, that you almost always know what it is going to do next, except that this understanding is based on your feeling, as if you yourself were the cat. A cat glides through an unbroken sequence of what may seem to be a pre-scripted motion. Notice this difference when observing birds. Birds are nervous and jerky, and will not stand still.

Cat artists will explain that there is a unique excitement derived from drawing cats, and it begins in finding the right line of action. While it is true that the line of action fundamentally determines the motion pose for any figure (human, for example), with the cat, the line easily becomes the figure. Usually, an action line appears as a pencil streak across a blank drawing field where a figure is later built upon. For the human figure, it is a vertical or diagonal line, slightly curved in representing its spine; for cats, it is many times horizontal but more bent like the current of a wave of water. The sprinting image of a cheetah, for example, with its all its legs up in the air, may begin with an action line that looks like a representation of an AC power stream. A kitten captured in a pouncing frolic over a yarn may basically look like diagonal overextended S.

An action line is a line of discipline. It controls the artist’s concept and the way a spectator sees the figure. Its straightforwardness facilitates an easier organization of the figure’s details as the stages progress; it will also aid to a trouble-free understanding of the figure when it is later viewed.