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Christian Seidler is one of our century's most gifted portrait painters.

I am going to show you a new way to use all that you have learned about building a pictorial statement and a new form of color mixing. What we are going to do is dig down to the basic elements of all the decisions you have learned to make while painting and show you a new way to use them. The style of painting presented in this book goes down to the core of color analysis. Why do we mix a defined color on our palette? Why is it a light color or why is it a dark color? Why is it intense or neutral, why is it red, blue, yellow, or orange?

This is a new form of color analysis that will enable you to express yourselves on canvas in a way you never dreamed of before. For myself, the theories presented here have changed the way I conceive a painting, the subject mater that is possible, and the entire construction process. For an artist who has spent so much of his lifetime wandering around his environment looking for something to paint, this discovery was nothing short of gaining my wings and finding freedom at last.