How to Mix Deep Skin Tone in Oil

A rich, warm dark flesh tone. Built from earth reds and umbers. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #6B3F2A in oil, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.

Target

Deep Skin Tone

#6B3F2A

Mixed result

99% match

From these pigments

#6B3F29

Pigment recipe

Checked August 2026

Ratios calibrated for oil. Start with the dominant pigment, add the modifiers in the order below, and adjust in 5% steps to your target swatch.

1. Yellow Ochre
PY43
76%
2. Cadmium Red
PR108
19%
3. Ivory Black
PBk9
5%

What colors make Deep Skin Tone?

Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red, and Ivory Black, in roughly a 76:19:5 ratio.

How to make Deep Skin Tone in oil

Start with Yellow Ochre at about 76% as your oil base, then work in Cadmium Red and Ivory Black in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #6B3F2A.

Why mix Deep Skin Tone instead of buying it

Mixing Deep Skin Tone yourself lets you approximate an expensive or hard to find tube from pigments you already own, match Deep Skin Tone across paint brands whose factory tubes differ, and rebuild the exact color when you run out mid painting. The recipe above is the working starting point.

Common mistakes

Reaching for more black to deepen it kills the chroma, add the dark modifier already in the recipe instead.

Get this recipe for your paint brand

Open the live mixer with Deep Skin Tone + oil pre-loaded and calibrate to your tubes.

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Deep-dive guide

How to mix Deep Skin Tone, the long version

Common mistakes, per-brand recipes, and the honest limits when the target sits outside what real paint can reach.

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