What Colors Make A Flesh Color?

Use these colors to make a flesh color.

These 5 colors can be combined to create a flesh tone.

1. Venetian Red
2. Raw Sienna
3. Flake White Replacement
4. French Ultramarine Blue
5. Terre Verte

Add 4 additional paint colors to your palette to easily adjust the color temperature and add blush.

1. Radiant Blue
2. Naples Yellow
3. Cadmium Red Light
4. Permanent Rose

Mixing flesh tone tints and shades with oil paint.

Venetian Red and Raw Sienna can be combined to create a flesh color base. Adding white produces various tints and shades of flesh tone.

These skin-tone shades can be used to paint large flat areas of color.

Adjusting the color temperature as you paint.

As your painting progresses, you can adjust these shades to represent the warmth of the light that shines on your subject. The base skin tone can be altered by adding Radiant Blue or Naples Yellow to adjust the color temperature. You can also add small amounts of Cadmium Red Light or Permanent Rose to create pink tones. Pink tones are usually applied to the cheeks, lips, and nose among other places.

Shading a painting.

Venetian Red and Terra Verte can be combined to create a shadow color. Adding a small amount of French Ultramarine Blue can make the shadow color darker and deeper.

Conclusion:

Many paint color combinations can be used to create a flesh tone. This is just one example. This post shows how to mix flesh tones with oil paint using only a few colors. I hope you find it useful. With a bit of dedicated practice and eye training, you can learn to achieve realistic flesh tones with oil paint.

Author: Sonia Reeder-Jones