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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More than 500 Color Combinations for skin, eyes, lips & hair (Color Mixing Recipes)
Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More than 500 Color Combinations for skin, eyes, lips & hair (Color Mixing Recipes)
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Author: William F. Powell
Publisher: Walter Foster
Category: Book

List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars(5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 28941

Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Spiral-bound
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.5 x 0.5

ISBN: 1560109904
Dewey Decimal Number: 752
EAN: 9781560109907
ASIN: 1560109904

Publication Date: November 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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.



Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Good guide to colour mixing   November 2, 2008
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. [...]


5 out of 5 stars A must have book   October 5, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

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!


5 out of 5 stars Mixing Colour   May 3, 2008
  7 out of 7 found this review helpful

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.



4 out of 5 stars "Handy book" go for it!   March 28, 2008
  6 out of 6 found this review helpful

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.


5 out of 5 stars great technical advice   September 20, 2007
  23 out of 23 found this review helpful

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