Video · YouTube
Watercolor portrait painting with only 3 colors
By Yong Chen
- Type
- Video
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- 13 min
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
A watercolour portrait painted with a limited palette of only three colours, showing how to mix skin tones and shadows from them.
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