Part 2 - Beginning The Portrait
The Apelles Palette With Melissa Calabria
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35m
How Melissa starts a portrait and where to place the rainbow of colors within the portrait. Melissa shows the variety of different colors being used in a practical sense. She shows where different colors fit in to their appropriate places within the face. You can use these color combinations and placements as a basis for essentially all portraits.
Up Next in The Apelles Palette With Melissa Calabria
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Part 3 - Adding Depth
Melissa shows how she glazes and adds even more complex colors to increase the volume. This is a very practical application of standard color theory in classical painting. She adds the foreground and creates a greater unity between the various parts of the painting by using her color theory demon...
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Part 4 - Final Changes
What you should look for in the end stage of your portrait to get color harmony. This is the final stretch of painting where Melissa demonstrates how to create a unified feel to the painting as a whole.