Color Mixing Recipes For Portraits: More Than 500 Color Combinations For Skin, Eyes, Lips & Hair

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March 2, 2021|
Color Mixing Recipes For Portraits: More Than 500 Color Combinations For Skin, Eyes, Lips & Hair by William F. Powell
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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits 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 and your painting materials, follow the three simple steps to mix virtually any skin tone for your portrait: 
  1. Match a palette of skin tones from this book to your portrait subject. 
  2. Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe for this palette using the included plastic color mixing grid to measure each paint color. 
  3. 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 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.
William F. Powell was an internationally recognized artist and one of America’s foremost colorists. A native of Huntington, West Virginia, Bill studied at the Art Student’s Career School in New York; Harrow Technical College in Harrow, England; and the Louvre Free School of Art in Paris, France. He was professionally involv...
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Title:Color Mixing Recipes For Portraits: More Than 500 Color Combinations For Skin, Eyes, Lips & Hair
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:48 pages, 8.75 X 6.35 X 0.68 in
Shipping dimensions:48 pages, 8.75 X 6.35 X 0.68 in
Published:March 2, 2021
Publisher:Walter Foster Publishing
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9781600588921

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