How to Mix SKIN TONES with Oil Paint: ONE Tube Color + B&W

[@arcadias_angels]

I've never painted skin before and this genuinely really helps to break it down. All the colors, shades, and hues are really confusing and overwhelming, but breaking it down like this in a fairly simple way is so unbelievably helpful. Now i feel like I can actually do this, its inspired confidence in my ability ❤️.

[@siriglisson1984]

Thank you for showing the range that can be attained in a reduced palette. I understand more about chroma, temperature and hue when I’m not bombarded with a lot of colours.

[@annawakitsch]

Hi Siri! I'm glad it resonated with you. I agree-- I love painting with a lot of colors sometimes, but it's helpful to isolate variables when really trying to understand how color works.

[@thelastmedici4764]

This is the best tutorial that I had ever seen about skin tones and portrait painting. It is the most beautiful easy and quick way to do it. Thank you for showing this.🤗. I will download your guide

[@annawakitsch]

I'm so glad it was helpful! 😊

[@CatholicFaith422]

Thank you for this 🙏🏼 For a beginner in painting, you have no idea how much this helps. I will definitely be putting this into practice.

[@marwaabulenein693]

This the best skin tones color mixing tutorial by far it’s easy simple and to the point 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏 keep it up

[@alelas6709]

Anna. Thank you very much. I already got the pdf file and watched your latest video. I have also ordered the burnt sienna (winsor and newton). I will certainly give it a try. I have a very good command of drawing and monochromatic paintings. After so much practice, I don´t think I have noticeable problems with values (though there is always room for improvement, of course), but I reckon I am petrified in fear when it comes to color. Your way of painting has inspired me to give it a try. THANKS again!!

[@annawakitsch]

That's great to hear, I'm so glad it's inspired you!! 😊

[@allenroberttucker]

This is really great. Please make more of these long form videos as they are really helpful.

[@annawakitsch]

So glad you enjoyed it! I hope to make more soon.

[@curiositydrawsme9180]

I love this explanation. I do a similar thing doing drawn portraits. I use Prismacolor grey Markers as a grisaille, and use a scarlet red ColErase pencil to warm things up, either in the underdrawing, or sitting on top of the markers’ tonal range of 10%-90% greys. Sometimes I’ll use an indigo blue pencil for a few shadows, but often I’m just using the red as the only (added) color, and along with the range of greys, it appears as though I’ve added a lot more color than I have. I love the visually-unifying effect of putting a single hue (plus a full range of grey-tones) through its paces.

[@MariPosa-f3l]

Wonderful. Love you voice and teaching style with honesty, command and elegance.

[@TLavonLawrence]

Really fired up after watching this - it is ON! Woooo hoooo!

[@annawakitsch]

Awesome!! Glad it inspired you 😊

[@coopart1]

I have always been a fly by the seat of my pants painter. But I love the control you have with this palette. I’m going to give it a go on my upcoming portraits projects

[@jmorra]

Such great advice! Love the simplicity and clarity of thought. Will definitely try this one out!

[@annawakitsch]

Thanks so much, John! I'm honored you found it useful.

[@mttgrl]

I just found this video and I have to tell you this is the easiest and quick way to do it. Best tutorial, so helpful 🙂

[@annawakitsch]

So glad it was helpful!

[@philiptownsend4026]

That looks like a super simple and economical system you've shown us. It will help a lot. My wife has tasked me with making as exact a 36"x24" copy as I can of Gustav Klimmt's Woman in Gold with her wedding day portrait as the reference photo. She is constructively honestly critical of everything I do and such a big task is intimidating me. You have greatly helped me I'm sure, so thank you. I am planning to do the portrait within the painting first by underpainting in shades of grey with acrylic ink, then transparent oils over, using transparency medium. The rest of the painting will be done directly in oils but first the symbolist squiggles etc that are in relief will be done with thick white acrylic applied with a syringe and thick hypodermic needle used for refilling printer ink cartridges. Klimmt used a lot of gold leaf, I have gold metallic oil paint. Your portrait colour system fills the final unknown in my plans. We even have the blank canvas in it's beautiful frame hanging on the wall!

[@annawakitsch]

Sounds very cool, hope the palette helps!

[@amandapeete7907]

Thank you for sharing this. I've downloaded your guide. What a wonderful resource!! Would love to see you mix up the full expanded pallet.

[@UnbridledWhimsy]

Thank you so much for this video! It’s exactly what I need! I’ve been trying to darken my medium skin tone that I mixed with blue or black and it just kept coming out gray. I downloaded your guide and I can’t wait to try it out!

[@miric6224]

Excellent! Any suggestions for keeping the pigments over a long haul. Do you tube up certain hues? What steps do you take to not having to mix from scratch every time you want to paint? Do you put a master chart under glass? Mixing on top of glass? Do you put plastic wrap over your chart to prevent drying? Do you add a retarder medium to slow down the drying time? Your formal for achieving the tones, the ratios, is unique, and extremely helpful. Just found you about a week ago. Signed on your wait list……….d’yak-o-you!😉

[@annawakitsch]

Thank you! 😊 I’m so glad you found the Warm-Cool Palette helpful. Those pigments are slow drying and I also keep them in a box with clove oil and/or put the box in the freezer, so each mixture basically lasts until I use it all up. So I'm only having to mix a few at a time to fill in the depleted ones. I slip the paper palette chart into a clear sheet protector and the paint sits on top of that. The whole thing can go right into the box for storage. Here’s a video about how I use the clove oil: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3zMknxqibmVmpo

[@jonquinn468]

fantastic recipe for skin tone. Thank you.

[@annawakitsch]

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed!

[@cryptcke5697]

you are seriously great. this is what i needed

[@victoriah584]

So nice to have another Munsell sister in the world!

[@mikebalis9963]

Very nice video. I am a model builder that wants to learn how to paint 1/35 scale plastic and resin figures. Flesh Tones at this scale are very difficult. What advice would you give me on this, please.

[@jean-paulvaneck5309]

This worked perfectly for me, it resulted in natural looking skin tones! I ended up with a lot of grey tones though, which i did not use at the end (but maybe i can use that for a second portrait). Why do you prefer this way of mixing (with a seperate gray scale) over mixing in black with the TRO + white scale? Would that be more difficult /more prone to trial and error?

[@campfirecult4375]

Well done. Thank you for your video. 🔥

[@thisresinates5655]

THIS WAS GREAT!!

[@billdell3051]

Well explained thanks it helped me.

[@alanbradley9621]

Essentially the intensity of colour. The hue or colour that initially comes out of s tube of paint is at maximum chroma for that colour. Chroma changes across the surface of objects. This is may help you to get started.....

[@BlancaVarguesArt]

Amazing video, very wonderful painting, 😍

[@annawakitsch]

Thank you so much 😊

[@kuraicraft]

you're amazing. This was so cool to watch

[@heavensbutterfly]

I have downloaded the guide. I just wanted to say thank you. Do you explain how you draw up the table in your patreon account?

[@guitareputz]

nice lesson! I wish my computer screen could show the colors or more so the values better

[@danielfernandeznungaray8996]

It makes por sense to use lead white, and generally you'll avoid mixing colors, at lest you wouldnt need it

[@elemer2089]

How do you mix the inbetween colours?

[@yay-cat]

Amazing video thanks so much!

[@GlenWatson-os9ri]

Thank you. I’m putting too much chroma in my paintings. This looks like a really nice way to decrease chroma in my darker values.

[@jetsonjoe]

you mention red oxide but you show at beginning burnt Sienna...so what is it? but then you explain...watch and learn...thanks...great tutorial...

[@kennethaquino8352]

nice painting🇵🇭🇺🇸❤️

[@samarahanrider2930]

What black u usually use? Ivory black or mars black

[@annawakitsch]

Ivory

[@fourfree3116]

정말 정말 많은 도움이 되고 있습니다.~감사합니다.

[@Mixcky_Shadow]

How much oil would you recommend to use to get a good consistency where it's still solid and isn't runny like watercolour but spreads easy and blends easy? A lot of oil or a little bit?

[@mariGentle]

thanks ❤

[@gunnarg8074]

U didnt show how u mixed them all i confused

[@b13314]

Question, in this particular painting and when you’re mixing paints are you using thinner and/or medium? Or is this just straight oil paint? Sorry I am new to oils and trying to figure out how you got this consistency/what your process is.

[@annawakitsch]

This is mostly oil paint straight from the tube. If it drags on the canvas too much I may add a little medium to help it flow, but in this method I want it to be fairly opaque so I don't want to thin it down too much with anything.

[@AmirNir]

great demo and explanations. Keep on. thanks

[@annawakitsch]

Thanks for watching!

[@sketchartist1964]

Why the tiny brush size?

[@magicpumpkins6518]

Hi I can't download your color mixing guide. The site don't send me email. Can you share this guide with different opsions

[@annawakitsch]

hi, I'm sorry you had trouble- can you give me your email or instagram handle so I can send it to you in a message?

[@mahnoush1]

Thank you so much for your great info!

[@annawakitsch]

So glad it was helpful! 😊

[@randyweisbin9605]

Thank you for video. I’m trying to download a guide but can’t find a link to do it. Can you or someone tell me how? Thanks.

[@annawakitsch]

Hi Randy! You should have been emailed the link, I will try sending it again manually.

[@randyweisbin9605]

@@annawakitsch hi - thank you for your emails and the link. I have tried a few times to use it, but when the link sends me back to the website, it just asks me to request the guide again. I've put my email address in several times but never get the email to confirm with or the guide. I think the guide is supposed to be a PDF, but all I see is a video (Eye with Rubies), on the website and nothing in my emails. Sorry - I seem to be the only one having a problem. I've tried on my phone and a computer, but no luck. Maybe something will pop up in time....

[@rorobnta7med716]

This helped so much I have an art exam tomorrow

[@annawakitsch]

Glad it helped!!

[@SalElder]

This is great! Very informative.

[@annawakitsch]

Glad it was helpful!

[@epm6694]

Extremely helpful! Thank you…

[@annawakitsch]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ArtbyJasonABell]

...nice 💯 great info 😊

[@annawakitsch]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@XxXposhpugXxX]

Hello dear. Do you happen to do commissions?

[@foxerrr7864]

Gamblin Ivory black is a blueish black, while Windsor and Newton Ivory Black is more brown.

[@kayasamuk]

you used winsor burnt sienna ? ı have lefranc extra fine burnt sienna

[@annawakitsch]

I looked up the LeFranc & Bourgois, and it’s listed as pigment PBr7, which is actually the traditional pigment for Burnt Sienna, but different than the PR101 pigment that I mentioned is in the Winsor Newton. Usually the pigment code is on the back of the tube so you can check. Any Burnt Sienna could certainly be used to make some great skin tones, but you wouldn’t want to follow the same proportional recipes I’m giving, because that pigment PBr7 will have different mixing properties- it’s usually less transparent and won’t stay as chromatic when mixed with white as the transparent PR101 pigment that Winsor Newton uses in their burnt sienna. The pigment is also in various brands of paint that will call it Transparent Red Oxide or something similar, and those should work similarly to what I’m using.

[@TheRobotWatcher]

Merci beaucoup!

[@MatinaRose]

I thought you're not supposed to use black paint for facial tones?

[@richjohnson275]

The more you learn about art, the more you'll probably see that every single rule you've ever seen or heard can be broken and/or has an exception to it. Her method gets fantastic results and happens to use black. Another rule I hear often is how never to use black in shadows, always use something like burnt umber mixed with ultramarine blue because it's more realistic is basically the saying. But what if realism isn't your ultimate go? What if you just want something that looks good, or unique, or you want something crazy like orange shadows? It's an option and not every option might align with your goals, but I think examining and taking to the time to experiment and stress test the advice and wisdom you hear can be fun and provide insight into when to follow certain rules and when to ignore them

[@axtrw2527]

Where to find the full video?

[@annawakitsch]

There's a longer version on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/annawakitsch , or you can sign up for my free mixing guide: mailchi.mp/68ae3f9b3263/mixing-the-warm-cool-palette-sign-up-page

[@Antonio-id9ld]

will this work for darker skin?

[@annawakitsch]

Yes! You just move down the value range. Of course, it's a limited palette so it will not match the *hue* of everyone's skin exactly, but it will get you close.

[@miheerism5187]

What the colour mixing method called?

[@annawakitsch]

Specifically I call this the Warm Cool Palette, but some artists mix out different color strings in a similar way and call it a prepared palette or a controlled palette.

[@artistkirstenbryan1]

For a second there I thought you were painting ontop of a photograph 😅

[@mustofaukir4837]

Karya seni lukisan yang indah

[@annawakitsch]

Thank you!

[@mayl5386]

are you mixing on plastic

[@EggsvsgVsvvsvsv]

جميل❤

[@BlancaVarguesArt]

New Sub. Here👍👍

[@annawakitsch]

Thanks and welcome!

[@Jp-lb4nv]

Easy? this is ridiculously difficult and complicated. UNESSECARY! Just mix it as you go. use your brains and work on the fly mixng as you go . Use your brains and eyes people. Common sense guys, Ignore this video, she can paint but this is a load of nonsense. Talent prevails.

[@moonmagnolia7]

Some people, like me, find a roadmap helpful. I’m glad you can do it on the fly. Good for you. 😊

[@shaftomite007]

WTF is chroma

[@curse.d5980]

How bright and saturated a colour is, so how much it pops and stands out

[@thisresinates5655]

Intensity

[@matthewdavis9437]

Buy a book on color and light. It'll be worth it.

[@TenaciousTheSketcher]

​@matthewdavis9437 any one in particular?

[@matthewdavis9437]

@@TenaciousTheSketcher There are two notable ones. Artists' Master Series: Color and Light by 3dtotal Publishing or Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter by James Gurney. Either will be fine. I bought the one by 3dtotal Publishing. 😅