Hi Morgan, This is my submission for Skin mixing chart assignment. I also have two questions. Q.1: How do you decide the intensity of skin tones ? When I try to mix realistic looking skin tones, the chroma gets too low and if I try to mix skin tones with a little more chroma, it starts looking cartoonish. Q.2: I'm not sure if it is discussed later in the course or not but in your example, you did a little hue shifting in case of halftone. I came across this term not too long ago but I have seen that it makes the transition of a color from light to dark more natural. Like in your example, the halftone leans towards Red and your average light leans towards Yellow. When I try doing this, my halftone either starts looking too Red (Not in the same hue family as average skin tone) or if I don't add Red, the transition from Average light to Halftone doesn't look natural (I think due to lack of hue shifting). I tried shifting hue but your's look way more natural and correct. p.s. Please tell me what I should add to my current mixtures to make them better. Please help, if I get this, I'll be able to color properly.

Premixing for Ethan done! Soon I will start to put in the average darks. 🥳

Attempt #2 : I can't seem to stop making orange flesh tones, I even follow your exact steps. Going to try again. I feel as if mixing colors is a bigger battle than the actual painting.

Hmm, I'm not sure how I feel about these. I think my light family has become a spray tan family. Seems very orange compared to your example. Will try again!

These are the skin tones I came up with. I don't know if its my monitor, but the light looks a little cool to me. I went from warm shadows to cooler lights. I tried to keep the colors close to what you are mixing with your limited palette. The lightest light is probably way to light, but I think the rest is ok.

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You are simply a genius at what you do11

Morgan - you are absolutely brilliant and your sense of humor makes my day! These videos are pure gems! Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing your amazing talent!

Really helpful lessons! I've always struggled with knowing how to adjust my colors but only being able to go "up or down, left or right" with a limited palette helped a lot. That said, this was still a lot of work and I feel I need to give the cool palette another go. Thanks,

Good exercise to get familiar with the palette. I think everything might be a tad too cool on mine and the split between shadow and light slightly too big, or is it good enough to start the painting?

Fun exercise! I had to keep checking my color values with my grayscale chart — turning my photo into black and white helped me see where I was off.

Thank you for introducing Ketchup and Mustard method. Simpler method for complicated matters.

Hi Morgan, what is in the white bucket that you occasionally dip your brush into? I assume its a mineral spirit or a medium. At first I thought it might be water, but the internet suggests otherwise. I bought the stuff off of your materials list. I have Gamsol Mineral Spirits, Walnet Oil Medium, and Walnut Alkyd Medium.... Whats in the bucket? ( I think I remember you saying that you did not like Spirits as much ) Thanks, Morgan ( I am enjoying the lessons )

Well this was a challenge but a good challenge. So glad I only have 4 colors to mix with. Now I know why I was overwhelmed with a full palette. Totally a much better approach to work with a limited palette. I am willing to remix if needed. Thanks SOOOO much for your help!

Oh my, I found this difficult as my first mix of alizarin crimson and white ended up too pink and stayed that way when I added the ochre light to it. Reworked my several of the light values in the attached to try and get rid of the reddish hue. This photograph is a bit misleading as to color as it's taken under a yellowish light. The background was actually grey mixed media paper but it and the colors appear more yellow. So I learned its important to get the initial mixture right tending to orange instead of red.

I was going for tight on the B&W but might be a little too tight between shadow and light

Skin mixing chart practice

I'm learning so much! Thanks in advance for your input.