Article · ZenART Supplies
Oil Painting Skin Tones
By Ardak Kassenova
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2022
About this lesson
The article teaches a warm/cool alternation method for mixing believable skin: building local color from earth pigments, cooling the halftones with blue, and describing a five-zone 'flesh sphere' of highlight, light, halftone, shadow and reflected light.
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