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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More than 500 Color Combinations for skin, eyes, lips & hair (Spiral-bound)

by William F Powell (Author)
Key Phrases: titanium white, weak color, specks recipe, Iris Light, Iris Main, Iris Medium (more...)
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From Caucasian to Latino and East Indian hues, this convenient book features master mixes for an arry of skin colors, plus recipes for hair, eye, and lip colors. The concealed wire-o bound book also includes a plastic color-mixing grid for measuring out paints, as well as a handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa.


About the Author
Recognized as one of America's foremost colorists, William F. Powell has taught art classes and workshops for 35 years in various art media. Today he is an extremely popular author, and he attracts more admirers each year with the numerous titles he has produced for Walter Foster Publishing, including Color Mixing Recipes he originally conceptualized, designed, and illustrated himself.

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  • Spiral-bound: 48 pages
  • Publisher: Walter Foster (November 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1560109904
  • ISBN-13: 978-1560109907
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,017 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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titanium white, weak color, specks recipe, speck recipe, tone recipe, cerulean blue hue, speck cadmium orange, master recipe, cadmium vermilion, cadmium red light, viridian green, chrome oxide green, raw sienna, burnt umber, burnt sienna
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Iris Light, Iris Main, Iris Medium, Iris Highlight, Pale Color, Ivory Black, Strong Color Level, Medium Color Level, Very Strong Color, Cobalt Blue, Phthalo Red, Alizarin Crimson, Permanent Rose
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5.0 out of 5 stars great technical advice, September 20, 2007
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





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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars "Handy book" go for it!, March 28, 2008
By Rose the painter (usa washington state) - See all my reviews
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mixing Colour, May 2, 2008
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Portrait painter? - than 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... Read more
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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! Read more
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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. [...]
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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... Read more
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