This is a list of 5 simple and fun color practice exercises to help you make fresh color associations and learn more about creating your ...

Mixing Skin Color Skin tones or flesh tones are just like any other mixture of colors. There is a common misconception that one formula will work for mixing every skin tone. Artists usually find a …

Will you share with me your red, yellow, blue you use for light skin tones? I currently use MGraham perrol red, prussian blue, and hansa yellow deep. […]

Mixing Beautiful Flesh Tones It is easy to mix beautiful flesh tones with watercolor paint. The luminosity and transparency of the paint add to the depth and beauty of a portrait. In the Maimeri Blu brand of watercolor paint I love to mix Primary Red Magenta with Permanent Yellow Lemon, both are transparent colors. These two colors are very bright on their own, mix a small amount together on your palette and add a lot of water and you will create a lovely pale flesh tone. Add a little more…

In recent illustrator mentoring sessions diversity in children’s books has come up a lot, and as part of that discussion I’ve been talking through the ways I mix watercolours for skin tones. I thought it would be useful to share my notes here…

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Learn how to mix accurate skin tones in this breakdown of how to mix any skin tone. It only takes four colors.

So how do you give people more dimension? You mix it up. Using a mixture of colors for your skin tones, you can achieve transparent, layered combinations that