Some of the most successful portrait painters suggest using a minimum of four colors to create a skin tone. Some commonly used colors are burnt sienna, yellow ochre, unbleached titanium, cad yellow medium, cadmium red medium, and Payne’s gray.
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Some of the most successful portrait painters suggest using a minimum of four colors to create a skin tone. Some commonly used colors are burnt sienna, yellow ochre, unbleached titanium, cad yellow medium, cadmium red medium, and Payne’s gray.