Basic Color Palette For Fair Skin Tones

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In this lesson, working with oils or acrylics and a stretched canvas, you will create a painting of a fair-skinned person. Try working with this color palette for light- or fair-skinned people.

Please keep in mind that this is only a basic idea for a color palette for light skin. You will need to experiment with other color palettes for painting not just light skin, but for the diversity of skin tones from light to dark and in different lighting conditions. After you work with this palette, you should experiment on your own and explore the different ways master artists have captured skin tones (some examples below).

Light Complexion Skin Tones Color Palette

 

Here is a basic palette for painting fair complexion skin tones with light, middle, and shadow values: Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Orange, Burnt Sienna, Cerulean Blue, and Viridian.

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