Painting a Portrait

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One of the main difficulties presented by portrait painting is getting the skin tone right. Fabien Petillion, who has many years of experience in this subject, will take you through the creation of color mixtures for three kinds of skin tone: light, olive, and dark. Because he offers daily classes and internships, this artist is regularly confronted with the pitfalls that his watercolor students encounter. In order to help them better, Fabien has developed a method of constructive learning based on a good mastery of drawing and a perfect knowledge of how colors behave. We will see that, in order to paint these portraits, Fabien ...

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