Have problems mixing flesh tones?

Besides art websites, there are an assortment of blogs out there on the world wide web written by artists themselves. The following is just one example:

“When I first began painting, I asked everyone I could harass what was their “secret formula” for painting flesh.  (A college professor had told me I had horrible color sense because I used brown in the painting of a costume, and my fragile ego had me very uncertain about color for years).  One artist told me he used nothing but cadmium scarlet, cadmium green, and white.  Another, mars orange, Winsor orange, sap green, dioxazine purple, and titanium white (I used this for a while, over a burnt sienna underpainting-  I sometimes got good results, and other times it looked like “TheLand of the Sherbert People”).  A different artist recommended cadmium orange, titanium white, cadmium yellow, cadmium red, and ultramarine blue.  I never liked any of the results I achieved, so I stuck to the basic yellow, blue, red recipe, and fiddled with the hues now and then.”…

To read more of Mathew D. Innis’ blog, click on the following link.

http://underpaintings.blogspot.com/2008/06/mattelson-palette.html