Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More than 500 Color Combinations for Skin, Eyes, Lips & Hair

Master mixes for an array of skin colors in oil, acrylic, and watercolor—plus recipes for hair, eye, and lip colors.

No more guessing at colors only to end up with a muddy mess and wasted paint! Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits takes the mystery and stress out of color mixing with just the right formula for more than 500 color combinations, along with instruction on a variety of painting techniques. Use the handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa.
Designed for use in the studio, this durable book features:

• A lay—flat spiral binding
• Easily wipeable glossy cardstock pages
• A removable plastic color—mixing grid

This convenient guide details three simple steps to mix virtually any skin tone:

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 Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.
3. Follow the recipes to create all the skin tones you’ll need to complete your portrait—from light values to shadows.

It’s that easy! This comprehensive resource also includes foundational instruction on color theory and mixing, covering:

• 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

Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits 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 Landscapes, 1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor, and Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic. These books contain hundreds of precise color mixing combinations for realistic results, as well as acetate grids for measuring paint units.