Thursday, November 11, 2010

New Flesh Tone Recipe

Throw out your Chinese Orange, because there's a new flesh tone in town!


This evening, I was experimenting a new watercolor pallet at an open model session. I was trying to figure out how to express the chiaroscuro lighting in the Florence Academy studio.


Here's how it turned out:

The Deep Flesh Tone was created using a mixture of Dragon's Blood and Indigo.

4 comments:

  1. People still use Chinese orange?....

    I do like the effect though.

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  2. Hard to tell the colour accuracy of the post but it seems to lack that over-stated healthy glow that chinese orange brings and I never liked. I always think skin is yellower and paler than we often imagine. Dragons blood doesnt sound like a winsor and newton color somehow! Nice piece. How long was the sitting, 2 hours? Look forward to seeing you when you get back. MBK

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  3. Beautiful piece. I tried a similar mixture back in school. It was a winsor/newton indigio and burnt sienna, with different ratios of crimson, when needed. heres an example: http://tstctc.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d1vym1k

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