Painting Skin Tones: A Portrait Gallery of Pastel Portraits by Alain Picard

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As a portrait artist, Alain J. Picard is forever inspired by the beauty and diversity of humanity—the vitality and range of emotion in each individual, unique personality—and how these are expressed in the human face. View some of his pastel portraits below, and learn about the artist’s method for painting skin tones in the October 2013 issue of Pastel Journal.