Mixing Skin Tones-Secondary Education Resource

Mixing Skin Tones

Basic Light Pallet

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•Mix lots of white with a little yellow and a touch of red

•Add a dot of blue to cool down the colour

•To create shadows mix brown with red, yellow, white and a touch of black

Basic Dark Pallet

• Warm tones = Yellow, Brown and Red.

• Cool tones= Yellow, Brown and Blue

• To create highlights mix yellow and white with a touch of brown and red

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Task: Experiment with mixing a range of skin tones (write notes about the colours you have mixed)

Light Pallet

Dark Pallet

My own skin tones

Red white and yellow (need to add more

white)

Yellow and brown (will make a good

base)

Yellow and brown (need to add white to make my

highlights)

Watercolour PaintingBuilding tones within a portrait image

1.Transparent wash of lightest tones

2. Allow to dry and add medium tones

3. Add dark tones and blend with water

Light Medium Dark

Homework

• Collect magazine images of people You will need lots of examples of skin

tones and hair colours for next lesson

Homework

• Number 5• Due in Wednesday 17th of December

Hwk, due Friday 26th

• Research an artist .......Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Cindy Sherman, Chuck Close.

• Add images, sketches,

Homework due after half term

• Create a self portrait in the style of the artist you researched, e.g. Van Gogh, show the influence of Van Gogh’s use of bright colours and brushstrokes.

Homework due Friday 16th

• Over the next 5 weeks you will producing different portraits

• This week Dotted Self Portrait..

• Look at homeork no. 7 (1)

• Pointellism