Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits

More Than 500 Color Combinations for Skin, Eyes, Lips & Hair - Includes One Color Mixing Grid
Learn to mix virtually any skin tone in oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints with the recipes and acrylic mixing grid in Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor.
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: 

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. 

• 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

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.

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