<div><p><b>LEARNING HOW TO CAPTURE SUCH QUALITY HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER!</b></p>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:<ul><li>Paint the four major skin color groups (Caucasian, African American, Asian, and Hispanic)</li><li>Refine these colors into dozens of possible variations within each group</li><li>Select your palette and mix hues for clean, beautiful colors</li><li>Determine the color and temperature of light that falls on your subject</li><li>Paint direct and indirect sunlight, artificial light and highlights of light</li><li>Master the four elements that determine color in shadow</li><li>Use photographic references when you can't paint directly from life</li></ul>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!<p></p></div>