Introduces the work of the sixteenth-century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldi, or Arcimboldo, and discusses his distinctive paintings of human faces made of flowers, fruits, animals, and other objects.
Full-color photographs portray a wide variety of face paintings on both schoolchildren and native people from nearly every continent, each picture augmented with an informative text that explains the significance of each face.
Diagrams, step-by-step directions, and full-color photographs demonstrate how to create thirty wonderful painted faces, from a ghastly ghoul to a delicate butterfly, and offer tips on how to apply face paint, materials, and making accessori...
