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Examines the sight-size portrait method, in which the artist stands back at a distance to view the picture and sitter side-by-side and to scale. In this book, the author demonstrates the technique in a series of projects that culminate in portrait painting.

Examines the sight-size portrait method, in which the artist stands back at a distance to view the picture and sitter side by side and to scale. This book demonstrates the technique in the projects that culminate in portrait painting. It includes sections on the history of sight-size, early treatises on portraiture, and the 'philosophy' of seeing.