Painting Beautiful Skin Tones by Chris Saper

Painting Beautiful Skin Tones by Chris Saper

LEARNING HOW TO CAPTURE SUCH QUALITY HAS NEVER BEN 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 understand-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

Chris Saper is a portrait artist, teacher and author of Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light, as well as two ArtistsNetwork.TV workshops, Painting Oil Portraits in Warm Light with Chris Saper and Capturing the Beauty of Monochrome Oil Portraits. As a faculty member of the Portrait Society of America, she has participated in many classes, panels, critiques and countless portfolio reviews, developing a solid insight into the obstacles that keep artists from seeing and painting skin tones well. She has also written and published two books designed to support specific artist workshop courses she's developed. Visit her website at www.ChrisSaper.com. Saper lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

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ISBN 13	9781581801637
ISBN 10	1581801637
Title	Painting Beautiful Skin Tones
Author	Chris Saper
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	F&W Publications Inc
Year published	2001-09-15
Number of pages	127
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.