The Best of Portrait Painting
Wolf, a prolific editor of art instruction books, may be a bit too prolific. This volume amasses more than 120 portraits from 96 artists, working in all media. With only a paragraph of text for each portrait, there is no depth to the material. Its value is limited to that of a portfolio of visual styles. Wolf did the same thing, with no better effect, in The Best of Wildlife Art (LJ 7/97). Roberta Carter Clark covered portraits in several media more successfully in her How To Paint Living Portraits (North Light, 1990).Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.