What colors are good for skin tones when using acrylic paints on canvas?
Here’s a link to my portraiture–just so you can see I know what I am talking about in regards to portraits and colors. http://www.flickr.com/photos/denisethepa… The person who said “all of them” is correct. Caucasians-for instance, are remarkably “orange”…but in all skin tones of persons of all races and backgrounds…, I use all colors and combinations of colors of paint to produce the entire portrait…(I often mix the colors I’ve laid out to create the secondary and tertiary colors). Keep in mind that complimentary colors (the opposite colors) are used to create the shadows so, with that in mind, colors such as blue,green and purple, which one might not suspect as being on a human face…sure enough they are. Color application is a science…so learn your color theory and you can paint anything. The only place I use black on a person is in the pupil of an eye–and even that is not c