What colors do you use for dark skin tones? 🤔 Color Recipes for Oil and Acrylic Paint

Easy to follow short showing how easily to mix a range of realistic dark skin tones with Oil paint or Acrylics - this video give you some super easy starting points for darker flesh tones
Regular practice is the key to effortless mixing when painting, so please mix along with these videos, and if you have any questions just drop them in the comments below!
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[@LoreaGandiaga]

Well this looks so much easier than making skin tones from all the primaries

[@lTrustedStrawhat]

If only I had this type of brown

[@RoseofAbuja]

@@lTrustedStrawhatI think you can get it online

[@taraneel2859]

OH MY GOSH you just made everything right in the world.

[@DafyddTimothy]

I love this comment - and yeah... this one makes life soooo much easier! 😊 Thank you for watching!

[@_harshikaur_]

U actually made it easy to learn

[@Dan-xx8fx]

All this time I've been using burnt sienna wondering why my skin tone palette looks more yellow. Oh well i learned something today.

[@dianecourtney2724]

Thank you ✌🏼

[@pratibhanishad3367]

I was finding this type of video of colour they were using different colours to make Skin and you shown in one only

[@DafyddTimothy]

Hi Pratibha! There are many ways to achieve dark skin tones - this is one of the quickest and easiest! - thanks for watching!

[@bluberries1105]

You gave me an idea for my commission. Thanks! But I only have burnt umber color so probably gonna use that one❤❤❤❤

[@kentruto4072]

Brown/white method im gonna try this actually other is using primarily color it's not easy

[@Faisal-oz8cn]

Amazing

[@nirateller5603]

Great. Thank you

[@DafyddTimothy]

You are very welcome! Thank you for watching :)

[@organicjam8077]

THANK YOU.

[@DafyddTimothy]

My pleasure - thank you for watching!

[@JimeTania]

can adding yellow make the burnt umber warmer? how how else🤔

[@DafyddTimothy]

not yellow so much... you need a deep red - try a little burnt sienna

[@RoseofAbuja]

@@DafyddTimothyyou’re a savior I hope your pillow is cold at night 😢❤❤❤

[@Gigolowattz]

What was the name of the white you’re mixing into the browns?

[@DafyddTimothy]

Hi! It is titanium white - very reliable and cheap. For portraiture, you might try zinc white, but in the demo it is plain old titanium white. Get a decent one though - artist quality is a good idea; The pigment is not expensive, but as a rule the student ranges can go cheap on pigment and push the percentage of filler... this is artist quality titanium white - still only about 5 bucks a tube!

[@Gigolowattz]

@@DafyddTimothythank you!!

[@ZuleykaK]

Why am stressed for trying to start with primary colors.lol

[@Briannafrancis-e9g]

What the right side one called? I’m hearing transparent choc side brown idk what I’m hearing lol

[@DafyddTimothy]

@@Briannafrancis-e9g it's transparent oxide brown - an amazingly useful colour for loads of things, but this is it's power play!

[@dizzyrachell1351]

So you can only use them two colors for skin tones 🤔

[@DafyddTimothy]

There are hundreds of mixes for skin tones, but in truth, they are ALL based on a kind of orangey brown... These are just two out of the tube options for darker skin tones... for another super easy way to achieve some very convincing skin tones, try this: kzbin.infobgOCfTyRGYs

[@LouIchioustheWerewolf]

What about lighter skin tones?

[@DafyddTimothy]

That is a great question! I'll let you in to a secret... all skin tones are based on brown. The trans oxide brown can easily be modified with a little red and white for lighter complexions. Now, for a one tube equivalent, there are a few companies that make a base "Flesh tint" that operates in the same way as you see here. Thanks for watching!

[@vermis8344]

I don't mean to sound critical, but it's right there in the video. See what happens when Dafydd mixes white into the browns? 😅

[@Grace_acie]

Hi! Could you share the brand and the color nr?

[@DafyddTimothy]

Hey Grace! Sure - these are both Michael Harding paints - artist quality, but worth every penny! The colours are Burnt Umber (no.126), and Transparent Oxide Brown (no.224). Thanks for watching! 😊

[@Grace_acie]

@@DafyddTimothy thank you so much! I will look into this :)

[@charlottesmom]

@@DafyddTimothy I’m going to look into these too, the colors are gorgeous! 🎨

[@mythribg3349]

Can we use burnt sienna instead of transparent oxide brown?

[@DafyddTimothy]

Hi! Great question, but no. Burnt sienna is a great colour, and is basically the same pigment, but the transparency is the key

[@mythribg3349]

@@DafyddTimothy okay! Can you please suggest an alternative to transparent oxide brown? (There’s availability issues where I live)

[@DafyddTimothy]

@@mythribg3349 Try mixing a little burnt sienna into the burnt umber to warm it up a bit... that should give you a close starting colour - although not transparent. I can't think of a one tube alternative to the transparent oxide brown, but mixing will get your base colour close to where you need it to be! Thanks for watching!

[@mythribg3349]

@@DafyddTimothy Thank you so much!

[@Therealgoat7917]

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[@Dastinm_1]

What talk so long for me to find this ouy