Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Colour And Light

Author : Chris Saper
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440319709

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Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light by Chris Saper Pdf

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 understandâ€"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!

Author : Chris Saper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322975051

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Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light by Chris Saper Pdf

Author : James Horton
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Portrait drawing
ISBN : 0713479027

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How to Paint Skin Tones by James Horton Pdf

Author : Chris Saper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Human skin color in art
ISBN : 0715312669

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Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Colour and Light by Chris Saper Pdf

This volume aims to set out the fundermental but easy-to-follow principles that you can apply to all painting and drawing mediums to create skin tones. It breaks human skin colours down into four main groups, and explains the tonal and colour variations you might expect within each group.

Author : William F. Powell
Publisher : Walter Foster
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781600588921

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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits by William F. Powell Pdf

Learn to mix virtually any skin tone in oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints with the recipes and acrylic mixing grid in Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor.

Author : Jane Blundell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1320762603

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The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World of Colours by Jane Blundell Pdf

PDF - This could be the most useful watercolour reference book you will ever find. This book has been designed for use by anyone with an interest in watercolour, whether beginner or very experienced artist. It contains hand-painted mixing charts created using a palette of only fifteen carefully chosen colours. Every possible 2-colour mix is shown, along with the most useful 3-colour mixes. The charts have been professionally photographed and colour-matched to be as true to life as possible. Each page is rich with notes about the various colour mixes and their suggested uses in paintings. This is a private PDF listing. Please do not share.

Author : Chris Saper
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440349775

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Beautiful Portrait Painting in Oils by Chris Saper Pdf

How to paint oil portraits like the Old Masters Mona Lisa. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Madame X. The infinite variety and beauty of humankind--like the mysteries behind sparkling eyes, a sly smile or an averted gaze--has captivated artists since the beginning of time. This expanded edition of Chris Saper's best-selling guide, Classic Portrait Painting in Oils, reveals keys for mastering how to paint beautiful portraits in oil to create soulful works of art. Through easy-to-follow lessons and expert oil painting tips and techniques, you'll find secrets for working from life, using reference photos and more to create rich, realistic portraits imbued with timeless character. • 14 step-by-step demonstrations teach how to paint 7 diverse subjects of varying skin tones from life and from photographic reference • Additional exercises reveal expert oil painting techniques for defining facial details, like eyes, mouths, wrinkles, facial hair and eyeglasses • Professional tips for working from life, including ideal session times, posing, seeing and mixing color and even how to work with children • The basics of using natural, artificial, creative and "Rembrandt" lighting to light your subject and convey a mood • Expanded key concepts of "perfect practice," the importance of regularly painting subjects in real time and an insistence on excellent photographic reference material, including a checklist for how to take--and self-edit--your own quality photos • New material on how to approach and execute paid commissions, including step-by-step demonstrations for painting both corporate and family subjects Through Saper's universal techniques, painters of all skill levels will learn to render more realistic portraits of every subject they paint, with predictable and joyful results.

Author : Jenna Rainey
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780399582226

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Everyday Watercolor Flowers by Jenna Rainey Pdf

Author of Everyday Watercolor and Instagram darling Jenna Rainey presents a beautiful step-by-step guide to painting botanicals from lilies to daffodils in a wide variety of styles. Artist Jenna Rainey shares easy-to-follow ways to paint a wide range of botanicals, all in her fresh, modern style that appeals to the next generation of watercolor artists and creatives, from beginners to hobbyists. With gorgeously illustrated instructions for both loose and realistic watercolor depictions of more than 25 flowers, leaves, and plants, organized by form and shape, Everyday Watercolor Flowers is every nature-lover's answer to capturing that beauty on paper.

Author : Charles Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015055869989

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Portrait Painting in Watercolor by Charles Reid Pdf

Guides the reader through a complete, step-by-step tour of the watercolor materials and methods needed to create expressive, masterful portraits.

Author : Katie Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351380546

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Color Theory for the Makeup Artist by Katie Middleton Pdf

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist: Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects analyzes and explains traditional color theory for fine artists and applies it to the make-up artist. This book is suitable for both professionals and beginners who wish to train their eye further to understand and recognize distinctions in color. It explains why we see color, how to categorize and identify color, relationships between colors, and it relates these concepts to beauty and special effects make-up. The book teaches the reader how to mix flesh tones by using only primary colors, and explains how these colors in paints and make-up are sourced and created. It also discusses the reason for variations in skin colors and undertones, and how to identify and match these using make-up, while choosing flattering colors for the eyes, lips, and cheeks. Colors found inside the body are explained for special effects make-up, like why we bruise, bleed, or appear sick. Ideas and techniques are also described for painting prosthetics, in addition to using color as inspiration in make-up designs. The book also discusses how lighting affects color on film, television, theater, and photography sets, and how to properly light a workspace for successful applications.

Author : Chris Saper
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440310638

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Classic Portrait Painting in Oils by Chris Saper Pdf

Discover a simple approach to capturing a world of beautiful skin tones Chris Saper takes the mystery and guesswork out of portrait painting while leaving its joy fully intact. Continuing the exploration started in the her first book, Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light, this sequel offers step-by-step demonstrations that cover an even wider range of ethnic groups and ages. You'll get professional advice on working from life, using reference photos, and combining the two approaches to create realistic likenesses that say something about the way you view an individual's unique beauty and character. Inside you'll find: • A series of 14 step-by-step demonstrations of 7 diverse subjects painted from life and from photos that illustrate the advantages of each approach • Techniques for seeing and recording accurate colors at live sittings, and retaining that accuracy when working from photographic references • Tips on posing and lighting your subjects using both artificial and natural light sources • Expert advice for shooting, selecting and working from reference photographs, including how to compose dynamic multiple-subject portraits • Techniques for painting eyes, eyeglasses, mouths, wrinkles and other defining details Though the demonstrations and examples are done in oils, Saper's techniques are universal. Regardless of your medium or skill level, the lessons inside will make painting skin colors easier, the process more enjoyable and your great results more predictable.

Author : Alyona Nickelsen
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780385346283

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Colored Pencil Painting Portraits by Alyona Nickelsen Pdf

Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture. Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.

Author : Nancy Churnin
Publisher : Creston Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781954354159

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Beautiful Shades of Brown by Nancy Churnin Pdf

Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. As a young woman studying art in Paris, she found inspiration in the works of Matisse and Gaugin to paint the people she knew best. Back in Philadelphia, the Harmon Foundation commissioned her to paint portraits of accomplished African-Americans. Her portraits still hang in Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery, where children of all races can admire the beautiful shades of brown she captured.

Author : Richard Schmid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Painting
ISBN : 0966211707

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Alla Prima by Richard Schmid Pdf

Author : Jan Kunz
Publisher : North Light Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : Portrait painting
ISBN : 0891349340

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Painting Watercolor Portraits That Glow by Jan Kunz Pdf

Here's detailed step-by-step instruction to painting accurate, lively and brilliantly colorful portraits.