From the article: Mixing Skin Tones
Which paint colors or pigments are your favorites when it comes to mixing up skin tones? Do you have a standard "recipe" or set of colors you use? Share Your Color Mixes
Look don't Assume
- Be sure to actually look at the skin tone itself rather than assuming a hue based on race.
- —Guest EB
Skintone
- I mix orange with lot of white plus burnt sienna, and reds for darker tones.
- —Guest artiststephen
EZ Skin tone
- Titanium white and Indian red. Its easy and natural. Ratio of white to the red determine light, medium or dark tones.
- —Guest Kathy783
Colors for skin tones
- I use titanium white + Winsor orange or Naples yellow with red.
- —Guest ester snyman
Flesh tint at the base
- I use flesh tint as a base, then add any mix such as yellow ochre.
- —MarkSimonhoff
Skin colours
- I usually mix yellow and orange to achieve the "natural skin tone" for fair people. To get the right skin colour for a person with a darker skin tone, I use a mixture of brown and cream or white.
- —Guest josephine
Mixing Flesh Tones
- All skin tones are a shade of orange. The orange that I use is yellow ochre with a touch of cadmium red medium. For light skin tones I use lots of Titanium White with a touch of the aforementioned orange. For darker skin tones I add ultramarine blue. For olive skin I add ultramarine blue with lots of white with a touch of the aforementioned orange.
- —Guest UncleRabbit1
Fleah Colors
- I use yellow ochre, cad red light plus white for warm tones, yellow ochre plus alizarin crimson plus white for cool tones and permanent green light and viridian green for shadows.
- —Guest jackow3
Only two colours
- I use only two colors (ignoring white and black) and those would be "Cadmium Orange" and "Ultramarine Blue", basically - orange and its complementary. Mixing blue into orange gives a satisfactory line of brown-reddish colors. Then mix in gray (and white/black where needed) values to give light/shadows and tones.
- —dimothy
mixing flesh tones
- I find that mixing the colours on your palette as though you were painting with them on your canvas is helpful. Not to mix them thoroughly and try to think like a sculpture more than a painter. There's no way to mix a colour that when placed next to skin will match its look. because skin is skin and paint is paint so the artist makes an estimation. You can also paint with very little paint on your brush with the same warm colours and this will be a cooler colour because you're moving into the ground colour-neutral.
- —Guest david.d
I try to avoid ready mixed skin tones
- I feel you can't get a unique effect for each person's skin tone as you can when you mix them using your own basic colours. I also think that you don't need the best paints to make a good portrait painting, as long as you have the tone and contrast.
- —Guest artyarr
Skin tones
- well, i use three colors viz. Burnt sienna, yellow ochre and crimson lake for the basic three tones of skin. More of burnt sienna for dark tones, more or less equal colors for mid-toned (little less of crimson lake) and more yellow ochre for fair tones
- —vickix17
Ms
- I use white,c red,c yellow and just a touch of prussian blue for tones
- —Guest Nellie
I do like using the Pre mixed Flesh tint
- I use the premixed flesh tint as the base instead of white..very easy to add a bit of yellow ochre, green,blues,umber etc there after.I save the white for extreme highlighting and fine washing last.
- —Guest rawART
Skin Tones that work for me
- I have success in using the following color for baby skin and light complexion 2-Naples Yellow Light add in and adjust color of Alizarin Crimson for rosy look. a darker tone add Burnt Sienna. A combination of all three, adjust for darkest brown skin tone. I am still working on my shading, but I found using burnt sienna with yellow naples makes the highlight darker.
- —dzzdream
SKIN
- RED,WHITE THAT IS ONLY, GENTLY ADDING GREEN ALSO SOME SKIN ADDING BLUE, ORANGEY
- —Guest NAJATHULLAH
