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  1. Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor
    Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor
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  5. Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression
    Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression
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    Harley Brown's Eternal Truths for Every Artist
  7. Formulas for Painters
    Formulas for Painters
  8. Watercolor Basics: Let's Get Started (Watercolor Basics)
    Watercolor Basics: Let's Get Started (Watercolor Basics)
  9. Basic Colored Pencil Techniques
    Basic Colored Pencil Techniques
  10. Mold Making, Casting and Patina
    Mold Making, Casting and Patina
  11. Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain : How to Come Up With Jokes for Cartoons and Comic Strips
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  12. How To Draw Manga Volume 21: Bishouju Pretty Gals (How to Draw Manga (Unnumbered))
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    Painting Better Landscapes
  14. Digital Fantasy Painting Workshop
    Digital Fantasy Painting Workshop
  15. How to Draw Knights, Kings, Queens & Dragons (How to Draw (Watson Guptill))
    How to Draw Knights, Kings, Queens & Dragons (How to Draw (Watson Guptill))
  16. Pastel School: A Practical Guide to Drawing With Pastels (Reader's Digest Learn-As-You-Go Guide)
    Pastel School: A Practical Guide to Drawing With Pastels (Reader's Digest Learn-As-You-Go Guide)
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    A Sculptor's Guide to Tools and Materials
  18. Painting What You Want to See
    Painting What You Want to See
  19. Color Harmony: A Guide to Creative Color Combinations
    Color Harmony: A Guide to Creative Color Combinations
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    Artist's Color Manual: The Complete Guide to Working With Color
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Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Found the way
  • Not as useful as I had hoped
  • A need for an oil painter.
  • Painting Beautiful Skin Tones: One of the Most Misleading Titles Ever
  • Painting Beautiful Skin Tones a must for the portrait painter
 Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor
Chris Saper
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1581801637

Book Description

Artists constantly tell us that they need guidance for rendering skin tones in their portraiture. This book helps them overcome this elusive challenge by providing a clear set of easy-to-follow principles for painting a variety of skin tones in three major mediums--oil, pastel and watercolor. The first chapter is rooted in the basics, showing artists how to recognize and use the five major elements of painting: drawing, value, color, composition and edges. From there, artists learn how to work with light, shadow and color to effectively capture the beautiful skin tones of various ethnic groups, including Caucasian, Asian, African-American and Hispanic. Next, artists discover how to execute the principles learned, using detailed instruction for color selection, mixing and application. Four mini-demos, three long demos and many examples illustrate the lessons. Artists will benefit from advice on shooting and choosing photographs to paint, how to edit their compositions and work past their limitations.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Found the way.......2007-02-04

Great work for painters...

The book was ordered to find out what I did wrong in painting portraits in oil. Clearly instructed by the book I now improved my skills dramatically, especially painting eyes... with the look of love.

2 out of 5 stars Not as useful as I had hoped.......2007-01-21

I happen to think the pictures in this book are beautiful. I wish I could achieve the same level of competence with color. By buying the book, I hoped to improve my ability to quickly make sound color choices, but try as I have, I just can't get the needed information from this book. I have purchased quite a few books on painting, and some have really helped me. The really frustrating thing is that it's obvious she knows what she's doing, but equally obvious she has a hard time communicating it.

If you already understood the topic, I'm sure you would get some comforting reassurance from seeing that which you have grasped reaffirmed. If you are not already a good artist, it's pure misery to try and figure out what she is saying. I have read every word and studied every picture in some cases 3 to 5 times, and I have taken little away.

I'm sure that if she were watching me paint, I would eventually understand what she is teaching, but I was not able to get much from the book. I did enjoy looking at the pictures, but the text is pure torture.

5 out of 5 stars A need for an oil painter........2006-11-13

A very excellent reference book. A must for a novice painter.

1 out of 5 stars Painting Beautiful Skin Tones: One of the Most Misleading Titles Ever.......2006-10-23

I agree with several of the previous reviewers. I believe that some of the writing on skin tones offers great insight. I also believe that most of the portraits in the book are garish at best. If there were Sears Portrait Studios around before the invention of photography there is no doubt that their portraits would look like these paintings. I would even be okay with that if it weren't for the fact that the book does not even begin to discuss skin tone until halfway through the book. I would say that 1/5 of the book is actually about skin tone. The rest of the book is just like any other beginners How-To. The basics of painting. Unfortunately there is little about skin tone.

5 out of 5 stars Painting Beautiful Skin Tones a must for the portrait painter.......2006-08-18

This book is excellent. Well written, easy to follow. An abundance of information. Good color information and color wheels. I refer to this book in the planning stage of each portrait.
Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light
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    		Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light
    Chris Saper
    Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 0715312669

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