+ photo review for folks who place an order
One of the blog readers (an illustrator)
took a post I did on Barack Obama’s coloring
and further enhanced it, concentrating on
bringing out his skintone.
Thanks Lisa! 
Johansson and Portman W cover March 2008
http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/2008/03/scarlett_johansson_natalie_portman
You have to work pretty hard to make Scarlett Johansson (light
spring) look bad, but they’ve done it on the March cover of W
magazine. Wrong color, maybe. . .
It’s time to take a look at the Republicans. . .
John McCain has a ‘color’ situation that is different than Obama’s.
Don’t let the white hair fool you; he has lots of depth and contrast.
He’s a deep winter.
He could go with more contrast. Although the blue shirt
on the left is fine, I altered the photo on the right and tried
for a little more contrast, which would bring out eye and hair
color a little more.
Barack Obama’s senate photo. . .altered with soft autumn colors on right
Barack Obama’s coloring is a bit tricky. He appears to have an
all-around ‘medium’ appearance. His coloring is subtle, but he looks
to me to be a ’soft autumn’.
Politicians don’t often wear their best colors because of the
social implications of color. Brown, for example, says ‘team player’
from a psychological standpoint, and right now the candidates
would rather be viewed as leaders. Just another interesting
component of color. . .
I saw ‘The Girl with the Pearl Earring’ yesterday and
enjoyed it. Just for fun. . .Scarlett J color-typed as
a light spring along with light spring earring
colors.
Someone asked me recently about the coloring of Keira Knightley:
She is very muted and soft. That is what I notice the most about
her coloring. So her dominant characteristic is SOFT, and she
is way over on the muted end of the of the clear –> muted scale.
With respect to hue, she is not obviously warm nor cool. In this
photo, she is wearing clothing and makeup that is slightly cool,
and to me it doesn’t do much for her coloring because she is
slightly on the warm side of the warm –> cool (hue) scale.
Moving along to the last characteristic of color (depth), she is
neither light nor deep. She has light hair, but deeper value in
her eye color, which balances out to medium overall depth.
Taking into consideration all three characteristics of color
(intensity, hue, and depth), she must be a soft autumn: very soft,
neutral (but slightly warm) hue, and medium depth.
Here’s another photo of her with soft autumn-type “clothing”. It’s
the best I could do. . .most photos have her in black or white clothing,
so finding any color on her was challenging.
http://www.keiraknightleyworld.com/keira-knightley-gallery/keira-knightley-50.jpg