Effective Mix for Skin Color

Let’s start with the Female Figure.

We’re going to create a color in medium tones, practically going towards the light of the skin color.

We’ll work with Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Naples Yellow, Burnt Sienna, and Cadmium Red.

With these, we’ll create the skin color.

In this case, the skin color we’re going for is more towards the warm tones.

We’ll add the colors in almost equal proportions, except for white, which is always in larger amounts.

As always, I recommend adding small amounts at a time to gradually achieve the desired color.

Let’s not rush.

I’m just going to lay down a base to start covering.

Later, I’ll add white for highlights and burnt sienna for shadows.

Whenever possible, I’ll try not to cover areas with a lot of shadow.

I’m not sure if you can see, but where there’s a lot of graphite, the color blends and becomes grayish. No problem. We’ll add more oil paint until it’s completely covered.

That would be the light color, now let’s start applying some (not too dark) shadows without blending.

I’ll add more yellow and burnt sienna to the same base.

In small amounts.

We cover it. It’s about a MEDIUM TONE.

I’m defining areas, highlighting the muscle shapes.

Now let’s move on to a slightly darker tone: with Burnt Sienna, Yellow, and Red.

We paint.

What I’m also doing is integrating some areas as I work. I’m blending the base color with the background, so it’s not a very sharp transition.

This is one of the first articles in the series on Skin Color in the Female Figure.

In a few days, we’ll share the next stage.

I hope this has been useful to you.

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