Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolorfeatures master mixes for an array of skin colors in oil, acrylic, and watercolor—plus recipes for hair, eye, and lip colors.
Also included are a plastic color-mixing grid for measuring out paints, as well as a handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa.
With
Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolorand your painting materials, follow the three simple steps to
mix virtually any skin tonefor your portrait:
- Match a palette of skin tones from this book to your portrait subject.
- Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe for this palette using the included plastic color mixing grid to measure each paint color.
- Follow the recipes to create all the skin tones you will need to complete your portrait—from light values to shadows.
Also featured in this book:
- Color theory
- Tinting, toning, and shading
- Graying skin tones naturally
- Identifying facial planes
- Mouth, nose, and ear color tones
- Eye and hair color tones
- Watercolor skin tone recipes
With recipes for
more than 500 color combinations,
Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercoloris your ultimate source for painting realistic skin, mouths, ears, noses, eyes, and hair.
Walter Foster’s best-sellingColor Mixing Recipes seriesalso includesColor Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic,Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, andColor Mixing Recipes for Landscapes. These books contain hundreds of precise color mixing combinations for realistic results, as well as acetate grids for measuring paint units.
William F. Powellwas an internationally recognized artist and one of America’s foremost colorists. A native of Huntington,ls3
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