Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light

Start with a comprehensive 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 find

• Paint the four major skin color groups (Caucasian, African American, Asian and Hispanic)
• Paint direct and indirect sunlight, artificial light, and highlights of light
• Refine these colors into hundreds of possible variations within each group
• Use photographic references when you can't paint directly from life