Walter Foster CMR3 Color Mixing for Portraits (CRC3-A)

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:

Match a palette of skin tones from this book to your portrait subject.
Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe for this palette using the included plastic color mixing grid to measure each paint color.
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 Oil – Acrylic – Watercolor is your ultimate source for painting realistic skin, mouths, ears, noses, eyes, and hair"