Acrylic
Golden Heavy Body Acrylics
Mixed result
#DA9C4D
- 1. Titanium White (PW6)74%
- 2. Cadmium Orange (PO20)21%
- 3. Burnt Sienna (PBr7)3%
- 4. Naphthol Red Medium (PR5)2%
Dry-down
Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.
How to mix
How to mix Medium Skin Tone paint
Real pigment ratios for medium skin tone (#C68642) in acrylic, oil and watercolour. The recipes below come straight from Chromilla’s mixer, calibrated to real manufacturer paint data.
Target colour
Medium Skin Tone
#C68642
Live mixer
Open this colour in the mixer
The Chromilla mixer is pre-loaded with #C68642. Change your brand, medium or palette and the recipe updates instantly.
Recipes by medium
One default brand per medium. Open the mixer to swap in your own tubes.
Oil
Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour
Mixed result
#BD7B41
- 1. Olive Green (PBk6,PY110)40%
- 2. Raw Sienna (PY42,PY43)24%
- 3. Permanent Carmine (PV19)18%
- 4. Yellow Ochre Pale (PY42)18%
Dry-down
Dries true to colour.
Watercolour
Daniel Smith Extra Fine
Mixed result
#D58137
- 1. Cadmium Orange Hue (PY53,PO73,PY83)32%
- 2. New Gamboge (PY97,PY110)32%
- 3. Perinone Orange (PO43)23%
- 4. Mars Yellow (PY42)13%
Dry-down
Dries slightly darker and a touch cooler.
Common mistakes when mixing medium skin tone
The mistake at this depth is reaching for a single 'flesh tone' tube and stopping there, which ignores how much a real face varies within itself. Build from a burnt sienna or similar earth base, then push warmer or cooler in small steps to match what you're actually seeing rather than the swatch. Overworking the mix with too many pigments is the other common trap, since skin usually reads more convincingly from three or four colours than from seven.
Related colours
More colours to try once you have medium skin tone sorted.