368 - Skinmaster Palette

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I've picked up a book that discusses the techniques of the great painting Masters.  It also has exercises so that the rest of us who are not Masters can attempt to follow as best as we can.  Here, I've hand-mixed a palette of colours that can be used to render skin tones.

The original hues (the colours right out of the tube) are in the leftmost column.  Variations on those hues appear from left to right. 

The big problem is that the Masters  had their own chemical formulas for creating their palette.  Not only do modern paints tend to miss portraying the exact Master hues, they also reproduce poorly on a computer screen without a lot of colour correction. 

Thanks to art-paints.com for suggesting RGB equivalents to the hues.