Skin Mixing Chart
Skin Mixing Chart
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Portrait Painting in Oil Without a Brain

Color Mixing and Values
Morgan Weistling
An overview of using a limited pallet to create a skin ton chart.
Newest
Salem M
27d
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.
Salem M
28d
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!
Morgan Weistling
Agreed
Shawn Laughlin
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.
Morgan Weistling
should work. I think.
Christina Michaels
late coming!
Christina Michaels
You are simply a genius at what you do11
@dargretchen
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!
Morgan Weistling
Thanks! I didn't feel like I was being my funny self. I looked at the footage and seemed to serious.
Ignacio Nicholson
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,
@mnk
3mo
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?
Morgan Weistling
sorry, haven't had power for days. should be okay but your reflected light could be slightly lighter.
@micheledavisart
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.
Morgan Weistling
looks job!
Gaye Sekula
Debra Rank
3mo
Morgan Weistling
great job!
@mahatsu
4mo
Thank you for introducing Ketchup and Mustard method. Simpler method for complicated matters.
Morgan Weistling
great job!
@jsheffie
4mo
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 )
Morgan Weistling
It's the plain walnut oil. I buy it off amazon in gallon jug.
@andreat
4mo
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!
@andreat
4mo
Here is my second attempt at the warm flesh tones. I think the first set is too warm and too dark in value.
Susan Pennington
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.
Susan Pennington
Here's a new picture taken in natural light
Shelly England
I was going for tight on the B&W but might be a little too tight between shadow and light
Morgan Weistling
On the black and white scale your halftone and reflective light are too close. You need a little more contrast between the two to have proper shadow-light separation.
@szokebarnabas
Skin mixing chart practice
Michèle Girard
I'm learning so much! Thanks in advance for your input.
@tclark5
4mo
Work in progress. Great Class!
Morgan Weistling
looks good. you might be able to slightly lighter in reflective light in shadow
@rdj8564
4mo
It looks like I could maybe add more black to the reflection and to the average shadow.
@rdj8564
4mo
One other thing. The colors I used to make the scale were the colors that you used in the first lesson and in the last lesson trying to match the colors of the picture of the portrait that we’re going to draw.
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