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What colors are good for skin tones when using acrylic paints on canvas?

  • what colors are good for skin tones when using acrylic paints on canvas? I want to paint faces, but I need to perfect the skin tones. Any suggestions my fellow artists? TY

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    you'll be amazed by the answer... All of them, you should run with a base tone but not use it as a base throughout, like a tan for white, deeper tan for black... In painting class, we were asked this question & we all came up with the obvious, tan face, reds for cheeks & lips, browns for eyes & contours, etc... & were amazed to find blues, greens, purples, yellows in the tones that end up looking realistic;; I'm assuming your a girl by your "picture", so it's sorta like the makeup/foundation type thing;; look real close @ your face in the mirror & REALLY look @ the colors, there not really definite, shading brings out all colors;; experiment on scrap paper with blends;; when it comes down to being an artist, you present what you see, not what you THINK you see;; you'll get it if you practice enough;; helps to take a painting class

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blue. all of your people should be blue. but not blue like the blue man group blue or blue like alien blue. just blue. or maybe red. MAYBE. or maybe just blue and red people. without arms or legs. just torsos. wobbling. but not white. never. thats your answer. the scary part is that I'm serious. but you can try mostly white (maybe not straight up white but something warmer), yellow, and a little bit of calcium red. and then you can add red to gradually make the tone darker yo.

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Here's a link to my portraiture--just so you can see I know what I am talking about in regards to portraits and colors. http://www.flickr.com/photos/denisethepainter/sets/72157612429088898/ The person who said "all of them" is correct. Caucasians-for instance, are remarkably "orange"...but in all skin tones of persons of all races and backgrounds..., I use all colors and combinations of colors of paint to produce the entire portrait...(I often mix the colors I've laid out to create the secondary and tertiary colors). Keep in mind that complimentary colors (the opposite colors) are used to create the shadows so, with that in mind, colors such as blue,green and purple, which one might not suspect as being on a human face...sure enough they are. Color application is a science...so learn your color theory and you can paint anything. The only place I use black on a person is in the pupil of an eye--and even that is not completely jet black as it has reflections--which often contain color. Other than that--for the darkest darks, I mix often Van Dyke brown and untramarine blue--or combinations thereof.

I use a fleshtone acrylic paint, it's so much easier than blending colours. Then I mix white, yellow, pink or brown or other colours to get the exact tone I want, then I add white to the shade if I need to highlight and more fleshtone if I need to shade. Hope that made sense.

peter

I usually use a peach, brown, white, yellow mix (some red) All of them more/less create different skin tones but those are the main colors that I would use.

Clementyne

white(a lot) pale orange, crimson, yellow ochre, some burnt umber for shadow areas

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