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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More than 500 Color Combinations for skin, eyes, lips & hair


Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More than 500 Color Combinations for skin, eyes, lips & hair


$6.10


This is a perfect guide for any portrait artist. There are recipes for more than 500 skin tones using either acrylic or oil paints. Each page features a master mix for a particular skin color plus recipes for all it’s variations including highlights and shadows. A clear acetate color-mixing grid offers the perfect guide for accurately measuring paints. There is also a special section on mixing…

Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists


Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists


$13.24


Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists includes more than 2500 photographs of 50 faces -men and women of a variety of ages shapes sizes and ethnicities- each demonstrating a wide range of emotions and shown from multiple angles. Illustrations show skull anatomy and facial musculature and a photographic series of lips depicts the pronunciation used in speech. 2500 black & white illustra…

In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits


In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits


$14.00


Through the years, National Geographic magazine’s staff photographers have often elevated stock depictions of “exotic” cultures into haunting glimpses of other lives. In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits presents a century of captivating images of ordinary people from around the world–280 photographs of pleasure, grief, stoicism, shyness and sheer endurance. In thoughtful essays, five…