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CLASSICAL OIL PAINTING - COLOR & SKIN TONES

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A SKIN COLOR.

134K SUBSCRIBERS ON YOUTUBE, 20+ YEARS OF TEACHING

FROM THE STUDIO - COLOR MIXING

THE COLOR MIXING BOOK LIBRARY

Real Paintings opened up, recipe by recipe. Click any book to see what's inside

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OIL COLOR MIXING - THE SKIN

THE PALETTE BEHIND THE PORTRAIT

Oil Color Mixing Recipes for Portrait Painting

six finished portraits, opened up -
the skin recipes, the palette, and exactly where each color goes on the face.

$19.95

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OIL COLOR MIXING - THE SURROUND

THE PALETTE BEHIND THE PORTRAIT

VOLUME TWO

Skin Tone Is Relative

The same six paintings, opened up again - everything except the skin. The walls, the air, the ground, the cloth and the garments.

 $19.95

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OIL COLOR MIXING - THE OLD MASTERS

THE PALETTE BEHIND THE MASTERS

VOLUME ONE

Rembrandt · Caravaggio · Velazquez

Three unrelated masters, one shared habit - faces measured plane by plane inside hand-drawn masks, beside the documented palette.

 $19.95

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OIL COLOR MIXING - THE OLD MASTERS

THE PALETTE BEHIND THE MASTERS

VOLUME TWO

Titian · Rubens · Van Dyck

Master, heir, pupil - Titian to Rubens to Van Dyck. One lineage measured plane by plane, three ages of flesh, and the pigments a century of teaching kept.

 $19.95

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OIL COLOR MIXING - THE OLD MASTERS

NEW

THE PALETTE BEHIND THE MASTERS

VOLUME THREE

Vermeer · Hals · Maes

Stillness, speed, and a teacher's shadow - Vermeer to Hals to Maes. Three Dutch faces measured plane by plane, and what the conservation record says was really on the palette.

 $19.95

THE BUNDLE

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GET THE BUNDLE

All three books together - the skin, the surround, and the masters - wrapped as one gift.

  $39.90

Three books for the price of two

COMING SOON TO THE LIBRARY

WHAT'S NEXT IN THE STUDIO

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THE ART OF GLAZING

A NEW BOOK

Van Eyck · Titian · Rembrandt · Vermeer

Layer by transparent layer - the glazing methods of the old masters, from the Renaissance to modern paints, taught step by step at the easel.

New volumes join the library as they are finished.

PAINTING THE PORTRAIT IN OIL

The complete portrait course

6.5 hours of step-by-step teaching at real painting speed, professionally narrated.

Early list: 50% off when doors open

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