How to Mix SKIN TONES with Oil Paint: ONE Tube Color + B&W

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
  • Mix a variety of dark and light skin tones with this simple Warm/Cool Palette for oil painting. If you’d like a free PDF Mixing Guide with step-by-step instructions, including more information about the paints and recipes to mix darker and lighter shades, you can request it here: www.annawakits...
    I teach this palette for the first painting pass in my Portrait classes, and I also have a tutorial for my patrons on Patreon.
    From the Studio of Anna Wakitsch

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  • @siriglisson1984
    @siriglisson1984 2 года назад +55

    Thank you for showing the range that can be attained in a reduced palette. I understand more about chroma, temperature and hue when I’m not bombarded with a lot of colours.

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  2 года назад +6

      Hi Siri! I'm glad it resonated with you. I agree-- I love painting with a lot of colors sometimes, but it's helpful to isolate variables when really trying to understand how color works.

  • @arcadias_angels
    @arcadias_angels 5 месяцев назад +5

    I've never painted skin before and this genuinely really helps to break it down. All the colors, shades, and hues are really confusing and overwhelming, but breaking it down like this in a fairly simple way is so unbelievably helpful. Now i feel like I can actually do this, its inspired confidence in my ability ❤️.

  • @karenegardiner5268
    @karenegardiner5268 Год назад +16

    Thank you for this 🙏🏼 For a beginner in painting, you have no idea how much this helps. I will definitely be putting this into practice.

  • @thelastmedici4764
    @thelastmedici4764 2 года назад +20

    This is the best tutorial that I had ever seen about skin tones and portrait painting. It is the most beautiful easy and quick way to do it. Thank you for showing this.🤗. I will download your guide

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  2 года назад +1

      I'm so glad it was helpful! 😊

  • @allenroberttucker
    @allenroberttucker Год назад +5

    This is really great. Please make more of these long form videos as they are really helpful.

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  Год назад

      So glad you enjoyed it! I hope to make more soon.

  • @alelas6709
    @alelas6709 2 года назад +7

    Anna. Thank you very much. I already got the pdf file and watched your latest video. I have also ordered the burnt sienna (winsor and newton). I will certainly give it a try. I have a very good command of drawing and monochromatic paintings. After so much practice, I don´t think I have noticeable problems with values (though there is always room for improvement, of course), but I reckon I am petrified in fear when it comes to color. Your way of painting has inspired me to give it a try. THANKS again!!

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  2 года назад

      That's great to hear, I'm so glad it's inspired you!! 😊

  • @jmorra
    @jmorra 2 года назад +5

    Such great advice! Love the simplicity and clarity of thought. Will definitely try this one out!

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  2 года назад

      Thanks so much, John! I'm honored you found it useful.

  • @TLavonLawrence
    @TLavonLawrence Год назад +1

    Really fired up after watching this - it is ON! Woooo hoooo!

  • @coopart1
    @coopart1 11 месяцев назад +2

    I have always been a fly by the seat of my pants painter. But I love the control you have with this palette. I’m going to give it a go on my upcoming portraits projects

  • @billdell3051
    @billdell3051 18 дней назад

    Well explained thanks it helped me.

  • @mttgrl
    @mttgrl Год назад

    I just found this video and I have to tell you this is the easiest and quick way to do it. Best tutorial, so helpful 🙂

  • @philiptownsend4026
    @philiptownsend4026 Год назад

    That looks like a super simple and economical system you've shown us. It will help a lot.
    My wife has tasked me with making as exact a 36"x24" copy as I can of Gustav Klimmt's Woman in Gold with her wedding day portrait as the reference photo.
    She is constructively honestly critical of everything I do and such a big task is intimidating me. You have greatly helped me I'm sure, so thank you.
    I am planning to do the portrait within the painting first by underpainting in shades of grey with acrylic ink, then transparent oils over, using transparency medium.
    The rest of the painting will be done directly in oils but first the symbolist squiggles etc that are in relief will be done with thick white acrylic applied with a syringe and thick hypodermic needle used for refilling printer ink cartridges.
    Klimmt used a lot of gold leaf, I have gold metallic oil paint.
    Your portrait colour system fills the final unknown in my plans.
    We even have the blank canvas in it's beautiful frame hanging on the wall!

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  Год назад +1

      Sounds very cool, hope the palette helps!

  • @jonquinn468
    @jonquinn468 2 года назад +2

    fantastic recipe for skin tone. Thank you.

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  2 года назад

      You're welcome, glad you enjoyed!

  • @UnbridledWhimsy
    @UnbridledWhimsy 2 года назад +3

    Thank you so much for this video! It’s exactly what I need! I’ve been trying to darken my medium skin tone that I mixed with blue or black and it just kept coming out gray. I downloaded your guide and I can’t wait to try it out!

  • @fourfree3116
    @fourfree3116 4 месяца назад

    정말 정말 많은 도움이 되고 있습니다.~감사합니다.

  • @miric6224
    @miric6224 Год назад +3

    Excellent! Any suggestions for keeping the pigments over a long haul. Do you tube up certain hues? What steps do you take to not having to mix from scratch every time you want to paint? Do you put a master chart under glass? Mixing on top of glass? Do you put plastic wrap over your chart to prevent drying? Do you add a retarder medium to slow down the drying time? Your formal for achieving the tones, the ratios, is unique, and extremely helpful. Just found you about a week ago. Signed on your wait list……….d’yak-o-you!😉

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  Год назад +2

      Thank you! 😊 I’m so glad you found the Warm-Cool Palette helpful. Those pigments are slow drying and I also keep them in a box with clove oil and/or put the box in the freezer, so each mixture basically lasts until I use it all up. So I'm only having to mix a few at a time to fill in the depleted ones. I slip the paper palette chart into a clear sheet protector and the paint sits on top of that. The whole thing can go right into the box for storage. Here’s a video about how I use the clove oil: ruclips.net/video/AKiaI4TTbd8/видео.html

  • @campfirecult4375
    @campfirecult4375 2 месяца назад

    Well done. Thank you for your video. 🔥

  • @amandapeete7907
    @amandapeete7907 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you for sharing this. I've downloaded your guide. What a wonderful resource!! Would love to see you mix up the full expanded pallet.

  • @danielfernandeznungaray8996
    @danielfernandeznungaray8996 13 часов назад

    It makes por sense to use lead white, and generally you'll avoid mixing colors, at lest you wouldnt need it

  • @cryptcke5697
    @cryptcke5697 10 месяцев назад

    you are seriously great. this is what i needed

  • @victoriah584
    @victoriah584 Год назад

    So nice to have another Munsell sister in the world!

  • @jean-paulvaneck5309
    @jean-paulvaneck5309 3 месяца назад

    This worked perfectly for me, it resulted in natural looking skin tones! I ended up with a lot of grey tones though, which i did not use at the end (but maybe i can use that for a second portrait). Why do you prefer this way of mixing (with a seperate gray scale) over mixing in black with the TRO + white scale? Would that be more difficult /more prone to trial and error?

  • @TheRobotWatcher
    @TheRobotWatcher 2 месяца назад

    Merci beaucoup!

  • @thisresinates5655
    @thisresinates5655 9 месяцев назад

    THIS WAS GREAT!!

  • @kuraicraft
    @kuraicraft Год назад

    you're amazing. This was so cool to watch

  • @yay-cat
    @yay-cat Год назад

    Amazing video thanks so much!

  • @SalElder
    @SalElder Год назад

    This is great! Very informative.

  • @BlancaVarguesArt
    @BlancaVarguesArt Год назад

    Amazing video, very wonderful painting, 😍

  • @epm6694
    @epm6694 2 года назад

    Extremely helpful! Thank you…

  • @mahnoush1
    @mahnoush1 2 года назад

    Thank you so much for your great info!

  • @AmirNir
    @AmirNir 2 года назад

    great demo and explanations. Keep on. thanks

  • @rorobnta7med716
    @rorobnta7med716 Год назад

    This helped so much I have an art exam tomorrow

  • @samarahanrider2930
    @samarahanrider2930 Год назад +1

    What black u usually use? Ivory black or mars black

  • @kennethaquino8352
    @kennethaquino8352 10 месяцев назад

    nice painting🇵🇭🇺🇸❤️

  • @foxerrr7864
    @foxerrr7864 12 дней назад

    Gamblin Ivory black is a blueish black, while Windsor and Newton Ivory Black is more brown.

  • @Mixcky_Shadow
    @Mixcky_Shadow Год назад

    How much oil would you recommend to use to get a good consistency where it's still solid and isn't runny like watercolour but spreads easy and blends easy? A lot of oil or a little bit?

  • @gunnarg8074
    @gunnarg8074 10 месяцев назад +1

    U didnt show how u mixed them all i confused

  • @guitareputz
    @guitareputz 8 месяцев назад

    nice lesson! I wish my computer screen could show the colors or more so the values better

  • @jetsonjoe
    @jetsonjoe 3 месяца назад

    you mention red oxide but you show at beginning burnt Sienna...so what is it?
    but then you explain...watch and learn...thanks...great tutorial...

  • @ArtbyJasonABell
    @ArtbyJasonABell 2 года назад

    ...nice 💯 great info 😊

  • @elemer2089
    @elemer2089 5 месяцев назад

    How do you mix the inbetween colours?

  • @EggsvsgVsvvsvsv
    @EggsvsgVsvvsvsv Месяц назад

    جميل❤

  • @b13314
    @b13314 Год назад

    Question, in this particular painting and when you’re mixing paints are you using thinner and/or medium? Or is this just straight oil paint? Sorry I am new to oils and trying to figure out how you got this consistency/what your process is.

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  Год назад +1

      This is mostly oil paint straight from the tube. If it drags on the canvas too much I may add a little medium to help it flow, but in this method I want it to be fairly opaque so I don't want to thin it down too much with anything.

  • @magicpumpkins6518
    @magicpumpkins6518 Год назад

    Hi I can't download your color mixing guide. The site don't send me email. Can you share this guide with different opsions

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  Год назад

      hi, I'm sorry you had trouble- can you give me your email or instagram handle so I can send it to you in a message?

  • @heavensbutterfly
    @heavensbutterfly Год назад

    I have downloaded the guide. I just wanted to say thank you. Do you explain how you draw up the table in your patreon account?

  • @mustofaukir4837
    @mustofaukir4837 Год назад

    Karya seni lukisan yang indah

  • @randyweisbin9605
    @randyweisbin9605 2 года назад

    Thank you for video. I’m trying to download a guide but can’t find a link to do it. Can you or someone tell me how? Thanks.

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  2 года назад

      Hi Randy! You should have been emailed the link, I will try sending it again manually.

    • @randyweisbin9605
      @randyweisbin9605 2 года назад

      @@annawakitsch hi - thank you for your emails and the link. I have tried a few times to use it, but when the link sends me back to the website, it just asks me to request the guide again. I've put my email address in several times but never get the email to confirm with or the guide. I think the guide is supposed to be a PDF, but all I see is a video (Eye with Rubies), on the website and nothing in my emails. Sorry - I seem to be the only one having a problem. I've tried on my phone and a computer, but no luck. Maybe something will pop up in time....

  • @kayasamuk
    @kayasamuk 2 года назад

    you used winsor burnt sienna ? ı have lefranc extra fine burnt sienna

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  2 года назад +2

      I looked up the LeFranc & Bourgois, and it’s listed as pigment PBr7, which is actually the traditional pigment for Burnt Sienna, but different than the PR101 pigment that I mentioned is in the Winsor Newton. Usually the pigment code is on the back of the tube so you can check. Any Burnt Sienna could certainly be used to make some great skin tones, but you wouldn’t want to follow the same proportional recipes I’m giving, because that pigment PBr7 will have different mixing properties- it’s usually less transparent and won’t stay as chromatic when mixed with white as the transparent PR101 pigment that Winsor Newton uses in their burnt sienna. The pigment is also in various brands of paint that will call it Transparent Red Oxide or something similar, and those should work similarly to what I’m using.

  • @MatinaRose
    @MatinaRose 3 месяца назад

    I thought you're not supposed to use black paint for facial tones?

    • @richjohnson275
      @richjohnson275 3 месяца назад +3

      The more you learn about art, the more you'll probably see that every single rule you've ever seen or heard can be broken and/or has an exception to it. Her method gets fantastic results and happens to use black.
      Another rule I hear often is how never to use black in shadows, always use something like burnt umber mixed with ultramarine blue because it's more realistic is basically the saying. But what if realism isn't your ultimate go? What if you just want something that looks good, or unique, or you want something crazy like orange shadows?
      It's an option and not every option might align with your goals, but I think examining and taking to the time to experiment and stress test the advice and wisdom you hear can be fun and provide insight into when to follow certain rules and when to ignore them

  • @sketchartist1964
    @sketchartist1964 Год назад

    Why the tiny brush size?

  • @XxXposhpugXxX
    @XxXposhpugXxX 2 года назад

    Hello dear. Do you happen to do commissions?

  • @artistkirstenbryan1
    @artistkirstenbryan1 Год назад

    For a second there I thought you were painting ontop of a photograph 😅

  • @axtrw2527
    @axtrw2527 2 года назад

    Where to find the full video?

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  2 года назад +2

      There's a longer version on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/annawakitsch , or you can sign up for my free mixing guide: mailchi.mp/68ae3f9b3263/mixing-the-warm-cool-palette-sign-up-page

  • @miheerism5187
    @miheerism5187 Год назад

    What the colour mixing method called?

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  Год назад

      Specifically I call this the Warm Cool Palette, but some artists mix out different color strings in a similar way and call it a prepared palette or a controlled palette.

  • @mayl5386
    @mayl5386 3 месяца назад

    are you mixing on plastic

  • @Antonio-id9ld
    @Antonio-id9ld 2 года назад

    will this work for darker skin?

    • @annawakitsch
      @annawakitsch  2 года назад +1

      Yes! You just move down the value range. Of course, it's a limited palette so it will not match the *hue* of everyone's skin exactly, but it will get you close.

  • @BlancaVarguesArt
    @BlancaVarguesArt Год назад

    New Sub. Here👍👍

  • @Jp-lb4nv
    @Jp-lb4nv 9 месяцев назад

    Easy? this is ridiculously difficult and complicated. UNESSECARY! Just mix it as you go. use your brains and work on the fly mixng as you go . Use your brains and eyes people. Common sense guys, Ignore this video, she can paint but this is a load of nonsense. Talent prevails.

    • @moonmagnolia7
      @moonmagnolia7 6 месяцев назад

      Some people, like me, find a roadmap helpful. I’m glad you can do it on the fly. Good for you. 😊

  • @shaftomite007
    @shaftomite007 Год назад +39

    WTF is chroma

    • @curse.d5980
      @curse.d5980 9 месяцев назад +11

      How bright and saturated a colour is, so how much it pops and stands out

    • @thisresinates5655
      @thisresinates5655 9 месяцев назад +2

      Intensity

    • @matthewdavis9437
      @matthewdavis9437 9 месяцев назад +7

      Buy a book on color and light. It'll be worth it.

    • @TenaciousTheSketcher
      @TenaciousTheSketcher 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@matthewdavis9437 any one in particular?

    • @matthewdavis9437
      @matthewdavis9437 9 месяцев назад +9

      @@TenaciousTheSketcher There are two notable ones. Artists' Master Series: Color and Light by 3dtotal Publishing or Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter by James Gurney. Either will be fine. I bought the one by 3dtotal Publishing. 😅