Video: Oil Painting: Mixing Skin Tones

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When oil painting, start with white paint before mixing other colors to create complexion and skin tone. Learn more about mixing colors to create skin tones from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Now we're going to do something pretty important and that it is work with the skin tones. What we're going to do for skin tones are start with white. Bring some white into the mixing area. We'll clean the brush. Or you can use a palate knife, either one. And then right here we're going to add full strength alizarin crimson or quinacridone rose. They're slightly different colors. But depending on the skin tone. And yellow if you have it. But you can also use raw sienna. Mix that together and then pull a little bit of white into it. So you have full strength on one side and white on the other. And in between you have a combination of those. You're going to need to have both of those. This is still too strong, so I'm going to add more white to this. So I'm going to have several colors. Just keep adding white to it as you move across your palate. And then I'm going to add a little bit of, it seems to be a little too pinkie here, so I'm adding a little bit more of the raw sienna. OK. So, I want, you know, little areas of the tones that I'm going to need for the skin color.

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Oil Painting: Mixing Skin Tones

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