You can paint realistic skin tones that glow with life! Learning how to capture such quality has never been easier. With Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light, 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 step-by-step 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 hundreds of possible variations within each group Select your palette and mix hues for clean, beautiful colorsDetermine the color and temperature of light that falls on your subjectPaint direct and indirect sunlight, artificial light, and highlights of lightMaster the four elements that determine color in shadowUse photographic references when you can't paint directly from lifeYou'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 watercolor, oil and pastel portraits to life! About the Author
Chris Saper portraits are currently held in more than 200 private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and Canada. She is a member of the Palette & Chisel Academy in Chicago, the Pastel Society of America and the Washington Society of Portrait Artists. Saper's work has been published in The Best of Portrait Paining and Pastel Artist International Magazine. Her recent awards include the American Artists' Professional League's Director's Award in New York and the International Association of Pastel Societies' Silver Medal. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona."
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