Mix the right colors of paint together to get different flesh tones.
If you are painting people or a figurine, you will need to come up with a realistic-looking flesh tone. Some brands of paints may provide a base color for flesh tones, but you will still need to mix in some other colors to get the specific shade that you need. Different amounts and shades of black, red, white, yellow and even blue are the primary colors that you need --- you can use these if you don't have paint colors with more specific names.
Instructions
1. Create a basic shade of flesh on which to build each skin color. Mix some burnt sienna, white and naples yellow together in small amounts until you get a medium peachy color.
2. Mix in some raw umber to deepen the base color to different shades of dark brown skin tones. The more raw umber paint you add, the darker the mix will become.
3. Add a very small amount of cadmium red to the base to create a copper skin tone. Alizarin crimson is a cool red with a blue undertone --- add a very small amount of it with white to the base for a light skin tone with a pink cast.
4. Combine cadmium yellow or lemon yellow to the base to create a light color with gold undertones.
5. Mix a very sparing amount of ultramarine to the base color along with a little more yellow or gold to get an olive skin tone.
