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As an intermediate portrait painter,I really enjoyed this book and found many of the exercises with toned grounds particularly useful. The one area I found frustrating was the colour exercises since many of the suggested paints use names that are not in common use but are used more by individual manufacturers such as Rosso Veneto, Barok Red, Terra Rosa and Puzzuoli Red (from a volcano in Italy?) These paint colours can vary widely from manufacturer to manufacturer and since no brand names are specified, it makes it difficult to replicate her exercises. Flesh Ochre,for example, which is a mixed colour, is made of different pigments in Sennelier(PR43,PY43,PR102)and Old Holland(PY42,PR188,PR102). I finally resorted to doing some of the exercises using the paints on hand (mostly Gamblin,Daniel Smith,and Holbein) and using these charts as a reference. This is a book that will continue to be a valuable reference and I recommend it highly.Get more detail about Portrait Painting Atelier: Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications.