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Originally Posted by Richard Budig
Linda:
I strongly urge you to try the following flesh palette for it's simplicity, effectiveness, and ease of set up.
Lay out a string of grays starting with black, and add white in steps until you have seven to nine values.
Lay out WN Alizarin Crimson Perm., starting full strength and lighten with white to match the values of black in the row above.
Lay out your yellow string with straight burnt umber (Old Holland is best), and lighten with yellow ocher until a middle value, which is pure yellow ocher, and then lightend the remainder of the string with white to match the strings above.
With a little practice, you should be able to hit 99% of your flesh color needs with this palette.
FYI: You can get greens from the yO and grays; purples and violets from the alizarin and gray mixes. Obviously greens temper or neutralize red. Violets go nicely around the eyes, and a dull green underpainting serves the lower half of men's faces. Of course, most of the ivory black/white mixes will read as blue when used as is.
Lay out the strings horizontaly, but work vertically . . . that is, if working from the third lightest value, select reds, yellow or grays from the third vertical row. This will keep all of your values the same. Try it. You'lll catch on quickly.
Lemme know how it works.
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Do I know you? Where can I see a sample of your work? I thank you for your advice but I'm happy with what I'm doing now. I know how to mix colors. I've been painting in mediums other than oil since 1964.
The colors that I have settled with are also the colors that Zorn settled with. I'm in good company with my choices and my methods.