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Color Mixing Oil Paint | How I Paint Realistic Skin Tones

Lena Danya
868K subscribers
546K views 6 years ago
In this oil painting tutorial for beginners, I show you my process for mixing realistic flesh tones with oil paint. This tutorial demonstrates color-mixing for both dark and light tones. Portrait painting is so much fun, and I hope you find my video a little bit helpful! LONGER COLOR MIXING DEMONSTRATION:   / 26494271   UNDERPAINTINGS EXPLAINED:    • Oil Painting Basics | The Underpainting (f...   Oil painting tutorial for beginners:    • Oil Painting Basics Tutorial For Beginners...   I am an artist residing in sunny, warm [humid] florida! My paintings are heavily inspired by nature and its beauty. I work primarily in oil paint, and sometimes watercolor. I prefer to work in a mostly realistic style and occasionally experiment outside of that. I post oil painting time lapses, painting lessons and tutorials, drawings, art tips, and occasionally artist vlogs where I share bits of my life as an artist. Creating art is my greatest passion and I …...more
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showing you two examples of color mixing for skin tones

0:04

achieve a high level of detail

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mix black paint by simply using burnt umber

1:40

mix every single color in the portrait

3:38

mix my colors to match

3:46

split the color off and adjust

4:04

added some more ultramarine blue to cool it down a bit

5:44

added more titanium white and yellow ochre

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brought in some of that yellow ochre

7:01

started off with some burnt umber or some ultramarine

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adding some burnt sienna and some cadmium

8:03

added a tiny amount of ultramarine blue

8:40

left a little bit of this color

9:06

adding some cadmium lemon

9:25

added a little bit of alizarin crimson

9:49

wiped everything clean for the next darker color

10:40

picking up some burnt umber

11:09

added a little bit of alizarin crimson to warm

11:36

mixed the tones for her hair and her lips

12:49

use the eyedropper tool

14:33

add little bits of colors from my unmixed palette

14:59

add little bits of different colors

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added a little bit of burnt umber and ultramarine

16:20

warming up the color on the left and adding more titanium

17:39

adding some yellow ochre and a little bit of ultramarine blue

18:22

added some cadmium

18:35

added some alizarin crimson and titanium white to warm

19:20

added alizarin crimson and titanium white a few more times

19:48

moving on to the darker warm tone for the shadow on her nose

21:51

added alizarin crimson and cadmium lemon

22:21

added some more burnt umber and titanium white to desaturate

23:02

added more burnt umber and alizarin crimson to warm

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moving on to the shadow color on her forehead

24:20

added some cadmium lemon

25:03

brought in some cadmium lemon

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added a little bit more titanium white

26:56

created a thin under painting layer in burnt sienna

27:27

and tweaked the colors a little bit

28:05

mix all the general tones

28:33

use a palette knife or your paintbrush

28:58

mix for each color for each skin tone

29:22

process i made a skin tones video

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Color Mixing Oil Paint | How I Paint Realistic Skin Tones
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546,889Views
2019Jul 26
In this oil painting tutorial for beginners, I show you my process for mixing realistic flesh tones with oil paint. This tutorial demonstrates color-mixing for both dark and light tones. Portrait painting is so much fun, and I hope you find my video a little bit helpful! LONGER COLOR MIXING DEMONSTRATION:   / 26494271   UNDERPAINTINGS EXPLAINED:    • Oil Painting Basics | The Underpainting (f...   Oil painting tutorial for beginners:    • Oil Painting Basics Tutorial For Beginners...   I am an artist residing in sunny, warm [humid] florida! My paintings are heavily inspired by nature and its beauty. I work primarily in oil paint, and sometimes watercolor. I prefer to work in a mostly realistic style and occasionally experiment outside of that. I post oil painting time lapses, painting lessons and tutorials, drawings, art tips, and occasionally artist vlogs where I share bits of my life as an artist. Creating art is my greatest passion and I'm thankful for the chance to share it with you. ♥ ☾ My Links: ⋆ Patreon - I post real-time oil painting videos with voiceover of my oil painting techniques and process for several realistic paintings, royalty free art references of my own photography for you to use, postcards, q&a podcast, and more!:   / lenadanya   ⋆ Art Store- Original paintings and fine art prints available: http://lenadanyastore.com ⋆ Instagram - works in progress, my art studio, and many more:   / lenadanya   ⋆ Facebook - my official facebook art page:   / lenadanyapage   ⋆ Tumblr:   / lenadanya   Art Playlists of my channel and art videos: Oil painting time lapse / Speed painting:    • ♡ Art Timelapses ♡   Water Series | oil painting time lapses of my realistic, figurative, portrait paintings involving realistic water:    • ♡ Water Series ♡   ⋆ Sketchbook Sunday | Casual series where I paint and draw sketches in my moleskine sketchbook while and chatting with you about artist life and many topics of that nature:    • Playlist   ⋆Learn to paint - Art help, oil painting tips, oil painting basics tutorials for beginners:    • Oil Painting Basics | tutorials, tips, and...   ⋆Lena's Art Diary | Vlog series where I share some of my life as an artist. Traveling, adventures, art museums, art galleries, nature, follow me around, lifestyle:    • ♡ Lena's Art Diary ♡   Music: All music in this video are songs by Amarante, used with permission.   / amarantemusic   http://amarantemusic.com    / amarantemusic  

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Lena Danya

868K subscribers