Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits

The perfect guide for any aspiring portrait artist, this book includes recipes for more than 500 skin tones using either acrylic or oil paints. Each page features a master-mix for a particular skin colour, plus recipes for all of its variations, such as highlights or shadows. The book covers a wide range of skin tones, from Caucasian to Latino and East Indian hues, and artists will also find recipes for a variety of hair, eye and lip colours. "Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits" includes a colour-mixing grid for measuring and is packaged in a concealed wire-o bound book that lies flat when opened, making this product convenient for any artist.

The perfect guide for any aspiring portrait artist, this book includes recipes for more than 500 skin tones using either acrylic or oil paints. Each page features a master-mix for a particular skin colour, plus recipes for all of its variations, such as highlights or shadows. The book covers a wide range of skin tones, from Caucasian to Latino and East Indian hues, and artists will also find recipes for a variety of hair, eye and lip colours. "Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits" includes a colour-mixing grid for measuring and is packaged in a concealed wire-o bound book that lies flat when opened, making this product convenient for any artist.

Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor features 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 - Watercolor and your painting materials, follow the three simple steps to mix virtually any skin tone for 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 - Watercolor is your ultimate source for painting realistic skin, mouths, ears, noses, eyes, and hair. Walter Foster’s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series also includes Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic , Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor , and Color 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.

Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor features 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 - Watercolor and your painting materials, follow the three simple steps to mix virtually any skin tone for 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 - Watercolor is your ultimate source for painting realistic skin, mouths, ears, noses, eyes, and hair. Walter Foster’s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series also includes Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic , Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor , and Color 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.