num_pages: 128
description: You can paint realistic skin tones that glow with life! 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. Artist Chris Saper provides the advice and examples that make every lesson and technique easy to understand—immediately improving the quality of your work. You'll discover how 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!
language: English
title: Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light: Oil, Pastel and Watercolor
titlecomplete: Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light: Oil, Pastel and Watercolor
genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Art
ratings_count: 108
publisher: North Light Books