Studio Update: Mixing Skin Tones

Today I started a fresh palette for a fresh painting, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to do a video to share with you of me mixing the skin tones I use for my portraits.

I've touched on mixing skin tones previously in this post, this post, and this one. 

 But let me go further into it, I use my brush to mix the paint, though I have many palette knifes, I find it nicer to mix with the brush. Before a painting session I like to mix up the mid, light and dark tones of the colours I'm planning to use, and also the warm and cools {particularly for skin tones}.

Here's the list of Colour Combos I use in the video:

Master Recipe: Cad. Yel lt. + Yel. Ochre
Light Values: M.R. + white + Naps. Yel.
Med. Values: M.R. + white
Dark Values: M.R. + Warm shadow / Cool Shadow
Highlight Value: White + Naps. Yel.
Warm Shadow: Burnt Sienna + white + M.R.
Cool Shadow: Raw Umber + White + M.R.

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