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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More Than 500 Color Combinations for Skin, Eyes, Lips & Hair - Includes One Color Mixing Grid

Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More Than 500 Color Combinations for Skin, Eyes, Lips & Hair - Includes One Color Mixing Grid

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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor provides master mixes for skin colors, hair, eye, and lip colors, along with a plastic color-mixing grid and conversion chart. It also includes color theory, tinting, toning, shading, graying skin tones naturally, identifying facial planes, mouth, nose, and ear color tones, and eye and hair color tones.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 48 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2021
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing


Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor is a comprehensive guide that offers master mixes for a wide range of skin colors in oil, acrylic, and watercolor, along with recipes for hair, eye, and lip colors. Additionally, it includes a plastic color-mixing grid for precise measuring and a conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa. By following these simple steps, artists can create virtually any skin tone for their portraits:

Match a palette of skin tones from the book to the portrait subject.

Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe using the included plastic color mixing grid to measure each paint color.

Follow the recipes to create all the skin tones required for the portrait, from light values to shadows.

In addition to the color mixing recipes, the book also covers color theory, tinting, toning, and shading, graying skin tones naturally, identifying facial planes, mouth, nose, and ear color tones, and eye and hair color tones. With over 500 color combinations, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor is an ultimate resource for painting realistic skin, mouths, ears, noses, eyes, and hair.

The Color Mixing Recipes series by Walter Foster is renowned for its precision and realistic color mixing combinations. Other titles in the series include Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic, Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes. These books provide hundreds of precise color mixing combinations, along with acetate grids for measuring paint units, making them invaluable tools for artists seeking to achieve realistic results in their painting endeavors.

Weight: 188g
Dimension: 156 x 241 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781600588921
Edition number: Revised Edition

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