Video: How to Mix Paints for Skin Colors

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Skin tones can be difficult to achieve with paint colors. Learn how to mix paint colors to get the best skin colors for figure painting in this free art lesson video clip on painting the human body.

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Hi I'm David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to pain with acrylics the female figure. Now that we have our basic lay out we are going to start building, I mean it is mostly skin and one of the colors we use mostly for skin is a burnt sienna mixed with white. This is actually a raw sienna but it will work for what we are doing and I didn't mean to put that big of a dollop but it happens so we will just roll it around. Now in looking at this drawing or painting my proportions are a little off so I am going to go ahead and fix that before I start painting and that way since everything is still light right now I can fix it. If I go dark right now and then I need to change it a lot more difficult. So if I just go ahead and change it now and take the time I will save myself a lot of trouble. I just kind of dropped the shoulder down after further review and this angle comes a little bit sharper so now that I have changed this will go here and then turn, go this way. Now I feel better about this and we will go into colors in the next segment.

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How to Mix Paints for Skin Colors

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