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

by William F. Powell

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Editorial Reviews

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

If you paint people, buy this book!, 2008-12-12
by Jennifer B. Sykes (Los Angeles)

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.

Good guide to colour mixing, 2008-11-02
by Mr. David Williams (UK)

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. [...]

A must have book, 2008-10-05
by Clair D. Strutt (Orlando, Florida)

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!

Mixing Colour, 2008-05-03
by Phil NZ (New Zealand)

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.

"Handy book" go for it!, 2008-03-28
by Rose the painter (usa washington state)

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.