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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More than 500 Color Combinations for skin, eyes, lips & hair

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If you are looking for a technical guide on how to mix skin colours for all the different races of people (well most anyway) then this is the book for you. It gives you all the information you need (which paint and how much)to mix just about every shade of flesh, covering both cool and warm versions, it covers the full tonal range for each mix and shadow effects. In summery it is the most comprehensive flesh colour mixing book I have come across yet and I have got most of the more popular books on this subject. At this price it is a bargin

This book is cool. Flip the hard pages (wipeable), and you have all ethnic colors at your fingertips. Of course you will need to adjust, but it is full of basic eye, nose, lips etc. colors and carts. Im glad I bought it.

This is great value for a novice that needs help to mix skin colours. The text is kept to a minimum and the charts clear to understand.

This book has saved me over and over. I have collected many color books for my painting. The simplicity and accuracy of this book make in "Number One" in my book! If you need help with skin tone, eye color, hair color, mixing ratios, this is the book for you.

Ever had trouble with getting the right colours for that portrait? Than this is the book for you. Explains clearly the basis of each recipe, and how to alter it to provide highlights and shadows. Also contains a section on eye-colour and hair colouring.

This is a neat little book which will help any portrait painter. I found the recipes particularly easy to follow and I think the book is good value for money. [...]

I love this book. It has become my figure painting bible. It gives you the recipes (like a cook book) of the proper amounts of each color to achieve all different skin tones and hair! It's great!

RECIPES FOR SKIN TONES - Comprehensive guide to skin tones,
A book that needs to be studied, so time needs to be taken in using the suggestions offered.
It offers possibilities for experiments,with skin tones.
It can be confusing in applying the colours because of all the choices.
Time needs to be taken in sitting down
and applying the techniques of skin tone.
It is not a beginners book for quick results.
The possibilities are so numerous that it can be confusing in the long run
therefore one has to have some experience before hand in doing portraits.

I am an art instructor and I use this book extensively to assist my students in mixing skin colors. I especially like the additional explainations of warm and cool shadow colors which occur on the face. It also has a nicely organized collection of various ethnic color catagories.

I bought this book to paint new skin tones on scale model figures, 1/8 to 1/87 scale. I found the book very useful in reproducing skin colors and hair colors in all human races. I had to purchase a few new oil colors, but as very little is used for each figure they will last many years. The book recommends squeezing oil paints along a graph (provided) to measure the amount of each, but for my purposes spooning up small amounts using a flat toothpick is less wasteful. The resulting skin tones are much more realistic then I could have created "by eye". The book also offers mixing formulas for acrylic paints but I have not tried these.