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

by Powell, William F.

• ISBN13: 9781600588921
• ISBN10: 1600588921
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-06-22
• Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing

Summary

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. 

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.

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.

Author Biography

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 involved in fine art, commercial art, and technical illustrations for more than 45 years. His experience as an art instructor included oil, watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil, and pastel—with subjects ranging from landscapes to portraits and wildlife. He also authored a number of art instruction books, including several popular Walter Foster titles. As a renowned master of color, Bill conducted numerous “Color Mixing and Theory” workshops in various cities throughout the U.S. His expertise in color theory also led him to author and illustrate several articles and an educational series of 11 articles entitled “Color in Perspective” for a national art magazine. Additionally, he performed as an art consultant for national space programs and for several artist’s paint manufacturers. Bill’s work also included the creation of background sets for films, model making, animated cartoons, and animated films for computer mockup programs. He produced instructional painting, color mixing, and drawing art videos.

Table of Contents

Instructions
Skin Tone Palettes
Color Theory
Mouth Color Tones
Ear/Nose Color Tones
Oil & Acrylic Skin Tone Recipes
Color Tones
Watercolor Skin Tone Recipes
Creating Colors
Index
Oil/Acrylic Conversion Chart
About the Author