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Demonstrating
and Explaining
the Premier Coup Technique
Step 5: Map Landmarks |
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The Layout
(Steps 1 through 7)
What the reader will find on these pages is, in fact, the very
painting approach communicated to me by Samuel Edmund Oppenheim
at the Art Students League some thirty-five years ago. I have
dressed it up a bit and added a few frills, but it is the same
direct, simple approach Mr. Oppenheim demonstrated for us in
those years. We begin by making a simple drawing, or "layout"
with the brush... |
Hover to zoom final painting |
| Next "map" the landmarks. A simple
horizontal axis gives the position of the irises, each indicated
by one stroke of the brush. A horizontal axis just above this
locates the position of the eyebrows. Then a mark for the base
of the nose, a mark for the division between the lips, and a
mark for the top of the chin. Note that the horizontal axis
for the eyes is exactly in the middle of the head, from top
to bottom. The face — the area from the hairline to the
bottom of the chin — is divided into equal thirds: the
first is from the hairline to the eyebrows. The second is from
the eyebrows to the base of the nose. The third is from the
bottom of the nose to the bottom of the chin. Remember these
basic measurements as you lay out the 'map' of the face. |
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