1. Match a palette of skin tones from this book to your portrait subject. 
2. Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe for this palette using the included plastic color mixing grid to measure each paint color. 
3. Follow the recipes to create all the skin tones you will need to complete your portrait—from light values to shadows. 

• Color theory
• Tinting, toning, and shading
• Graying skin tones naturally
• Identifying facial planes
• Mouth, nose, and ear color tones
• Eye and hair color tones
• Watercolor skin tone recipes

Walter Foster’s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series also includes Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic, Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes. These books contain hundreds of precise color mixing combinations for realistic results, as well as acetate grids for measuring paint units.