Beth,
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...This was always the question I had regarding the use of cool shadows. For example, pertaining to pastels, if you find your local skin color, then you want your shadows cool, do you cross hatch with a blue color or do you pick a darker hue (stick) of your local color that is already mixed?
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To "cool" off flesh tones, you could either combine a cooler color with the flesh tones already there, or select the proper color if you happen to have it in your box. Cool doesn't necessarily mean blue; it can be green, violet or blue, and of varying intensity, from strong chroma, to virtually neutral hues. Or if you are going for the direct color, a cooler version of what's going on in the light.
Colors in shadow are never going to be just darker versions of the local color in light; they will always be
different in temperature and saturation.