COLOR-MIXING FOR PORTRAIT PAINTING || Mixing flesh tones

In this video I’ll show how I mix skin tones and premix colors before starting to work on an oil painting. Also I will talk a little bit about a limited palette.

Materials used:
Oil paints (Nevskaya palitra), home-made glass palette, palette knife, paper tissues (to wipe off the palette knife)

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Music: Acoustic Guitar Session by Madonkey

[sookyoungpark]

Watching the paint getting mixed is so satisfying

[adelegilesart]

Going to order some big tubes of primary colours. Love the limited palette approach because it also saves on buying so many different colours which gets pricey.

[BearAndBunny]

This paint mixing method for a palette is far more to-the-point than the method I was taught when I was a teenager. Sometimes I felt like I spent more time mixing than painting. Now, this is so much easier. Thank you, Daria. You are an angel!

[goldfish]

Yessss!!! I've been waiting for this video! I absolutely love your color choices in your paintings so I'm surprised that you only use the basic palette colors. Thank you for the upload :)

[kieranm]

I watch this video every time I return to painting as I seem to forget how to mix skin tones if I’ve been away a while. It has been invaluable to me, and I appreciate it so much. Thank you.

[blonde]

I just watching these because I learned that you don’t have to buy skin toned acrylic paint. You can just use your primary colors to make flesh tones which is extremely easy! I’m all good now because of your work! Thank you❤️

[nadjaisfunny]

can you please do a tutorial for starter in oil paintig? And how you simplify your paintings, but still look in the end suuuper realistic

[EmorettaRobinson]

I've only recently found your channel maybe about 4 or 5 months ago. But I am so impressed by your talent. You are truly gifted. I know you've probably been told that before but not by me. You are talented and I always love the finished painting. Thank you for sharing your gift.

[analogtuner]

The color mix is simple. I've watched a lot of different videos, read books, etc, this is the one of the best approach to mix colors for portraits. Simple and powerful. When I find myself struggling with the right colors and I go back to this video. There are different approaches to this, but the simplists is where I go. Learning this has helped out with establishing the right procedure to figuring out the colors. While other videos are a bit to complex and doesn't always fit the situation, this approach will get you there. But spending time and practice, my go to is here. Thank you

[adamtapia]

Thank you for so kindly sharing your time and vaulable techniques. Your visual demonstrations greatly appreciated.

[mamomamo]

Wow you've got a lot patience for us 💕 The fact that you've made multiple videos of the (kinda) same question we always ask for repeatedly

[gwenroberts]

You've answered everything I've always wanted to know about mixing colours. Thank you so much. You're an excellent teacher.

[lloydchristmas]

your voice is so smooth and relaxing !! i'm in love :)

[thehaleymorgan]

All of your tips & advice on painting are so helpful! I'd love to know if you have any tips on a good way to precisely paint hair & such. I know all that you've said so far your videos have helped tons!

[iseetheWAYVision]

With yours and my art teachers help, I’m going to do great this year. It’s my last year and I’m excited.

[mindomeus]

Amazing this showed me how to make skin color which I wanted to know for so long thank you so much

[charlespeterson]

Thank you for this very instructive video. I look forward to your next videos on portrait painting.

[alexisbrownstein]

I’m still a beginner at oil painting because I go on and off with it. I was using this limited pallet for a long time and it was great but one thing to consider for other new painters like myself is that pigments may not mix the way you expect them to! Sometimes it’s very helpful to test color mixes before hand with your primaries to see what types of colors they can create. For example, when I mixed cadmium red and ultramarine blue, instead of making the expected purple, the color was blackish and dull because of the high tinting strength of both paints and the way that the specific pigments mixed. When I did a similar mix replacing the red with alizarin crimson it made a lovely dark purple. If you’re new to painting and haven’t done a test to see what secondary colors the primaries in your pallets mix i really recommend it. It was very helpful not only to make saturated high chroma secondary colors, it also showed me which paints where best to mix in if I wanted to mute another color.

[Kalimbarima]

The most satisfying thing on earth is mixing oil paints.

[andrewhaas]

I love that you show us how to mix, I learnt a lot just watching and thinking about why you added each color.