Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light: Oil, Pastel and Watercolor

Description

LEARNING HOW TO CAPTURE SUCH QUALITY HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER! Inside you'll find guidelines for rendering accurate skin tones in a variety of media, including watercolour, oil and pastel. You'll begin with a review of the five essential painting elements (drawing, value, colour, composition and edges), then learn how light and colour influence the appearance of skin tones. Best-selling artist Chris Saper provides the advice and examples that make every lesson and technique easy to understand | immediately improving the quality of your work. You'll discover how to:P aint the four major skin colour groups (Caucasian, African American, Asian, and Hispanic)Refine these colours into dozens of possible variations within each group Select your palette and mix hues for clean, beautiful colours Determine the colour and temperature of light that falls on your subject Paint direct and indirect sunlight, artificial light and highlights of light Master the four elements that determine colour in shadow Use photographic references when you can't paint directly from life You'll also find seven step-by-step demonstrations and an appendix of sample colour charts for each major skin type under a range of lighting variations. It's all you need to bring your portraits to life! | Inside you'll find guidelines for rendering accurate skin tones in a variety of media, including watercolour, oil and pastel. You'll begin with a review of the five essential painting elements (drawing, value, colour, composition and edges), then learn how light and colour influence the appearance of skin tones.

Chris Saper is a portrait painter, teacher and author of Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light, as well as four artistsnetwork.tv DVD workshops on painting portraits in oil. As a faculty member of the Portrait Society of America, she has participated in many classes, panels, critiques and countless portfolio reviews, developing a solid insight into the obstacles that keep artists from seeing and painting skin tones well. She has written and self-published two books designed to support workshop courses she's developed, For Love or Money: A Business Handbook for Portrait Painters and Mostly Monochrome: Six Step-by-Step Demonstrations.