Paint beautiful and expressive portraits by combining watercolor with other mediums!

What makes an eye-popping, eye-stopping portrait? It''s all about contrast and the play of opposites, round shape against square, light against dark, transparent with opaque. Combining mediums allows you to push the inherent properties of each for a lively play of opposites. You''ll be able to paint glorious lights, richer darks, intriguing texture and mysterious passages that create mood and a strong sense of place, space and character. Jean Pederson gives you all the advice and instruction you need to paint beautiful, expressive portraits filled with life and spirit. Let your portraits speak to the world!

Jean Pedersen teaches how to capture the beauty of the human face and figure. By combining watercolor with other water-friendly mediums, Jean produces rich darks contrasted by extreme lights to create texture-filled paintings that convey the mood and emotion of the subject. Every aspect of painting mixed media portraits will be addressed, including compositional considerations, rendering the figure accurately and successfully combining different mediums. The book contains a special chapter on skin tones and how to create the right one for different ethnicities as well as a section on composition and design so the reader can direct the viewer’s eye. 28 fully illustrated mini- and full demonstrations show readers how to paint a variety of people, sexes, races and ages." Jean Pederson is a contributing editor for The Artist’s Magazine and has written for Watercolor Magic, as well. Her work has won several awards and in addition to appearing in F+W magazines, her work has appeared in International Artist and Splash 8 and Splash 9. She is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists, Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour and other professional organizations. She has a background in education and teaches workshops around the globe. She lives in Calgary, Alberta Canada.