About this section
Portraits of Hollywood actors: studio shots, film roles, black-and-white classics and contemporary photography.
This is the most demanding kind of portrait — the viewer knows the face by heart and spots the smallest distortion. Size helps: at 60x80 and 80x100 the areas across the face are larger, and the transitions over cheekbones and into shadow come out softer. Black-and-white designs are deceptive — a greyscale palette often holds more shades than a colour one. The section currently holds 481 designs.
Sizes, difficulty and palette
Canvas formats here run from 40x40 to 80x120 cm — 12 sizes in total. The most common one is 60x90 cm: 57 designs.
Difficulty runs from level 1 to level 5, and level 3 covers 83% of the designs. Palettes range from 9 to 25 colours.
What comes in the box
Every kit in this section ships the same way: a cotton canvas already stretched over a wooden frame, numbered acrylic paints, two brushes, a control sheet and instructions. Nothing else is needed to start, and once the paint has dried the canvas hangs on the wall without a frame.
