Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits – Walter Foster

R275.00

This convenient book features master mixes for an array of skin colours in oil, acrylic, and watercolour – plus recipes for hair, eye, nose, ear and lip colours. The concealed wire-o bound book also includes a plastic colour-mixing grid for measuring out paints, as well as a handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa. With recipes for more than 500 colour combinations.

This comprehensive guide detailsย three simple steps to mix virtually any skin tone:

  1. Match a palette of skin tones from this book to your portrait subjectโ€”for example, “Native American (Bronze).”
  2. Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe for this palette using the Colour Mixing Grid to measure each paint colour.
  3. Follow the recipes to create all the skin tones you’ll need to complete your portraitโ€”from light values to shadows.
Also featured:
  • Colour theory.
  • Tinting, toning, and shading.
  • Greying skin tones naturally.
  • Identifying facial planes.
  • Eye, mouth, nose, ear and hair colour tones.
  • Watercolour skin tone recipes.

 

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Author / Artist Information

William F. Powellย was an internationally recognized artist and one of Americaโ€™s foremost colorists. A native of Huntington, West Virginia, Bill studied at the Art Studentโ€™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 pastelโ€”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 โ€œColor Mixing and Theoryโ€ 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 โ€œColor in Perspectiveโ€ for a national art magazine. Additionally, he performed as an art consultant for national space programs and for several artistโ€™s paint manufacturers. Billโ€™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.

MEDIUM:ย Acrylic,ย Oil,ย Painting

SERIES:ย Color Mixing Recipes

FORMAT:ย Paperback

SIZE:ย 6.125 in x 9.5in / 155.57mm x 241.3 mm

PUBLISHED:ย June 22, 2021

 

 

 

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