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

by Chris Saper

Overview

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 watercolor, oil and pastel. You'll begin with a review of the five essential painting elements (drawing, value, color, composition and edges), then learn how light and color 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:

• Paint the four major skin color groups (Caucasian, African American, Asian, and Hispanic)
• Refine these colors into dozens of possible variations within each group
• Select your palette and mix hues for clean, beautiful colors
• Determine the color 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 color 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 color charts for each major skin type under a range of lighting variations. It's all you need to bring your portraits to life!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440341830
Publisher:	Pink Cocktail Publishing
Publication date:	03/12/2015
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	364,103
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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.