Overview
This comprehensive guide details three simple steps to mix virtually any skin tone:
- Match a palette of skin tones from this book to your portrait subject—for example, "Native American (Bronze)."
- Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe for this palette using the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.
- Follow the recipes to create all the skin tones you'll need to complete your portrait—from light values to shadows.
- 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
This book title, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits (More than 500 Color Combinations for Skin, Eyes, Lips & Hair), ISBN: 9781560109907, by William F. Powell, published by Walter Foster Publishing (November 1, 2006) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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