How to Mix Skin Tone (Medium) in Oil

A mid-warm skin tone. Fills the gap between light and deep. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #C68A63 in oil, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.

Target

Skin Tone (Medium)

#C68A63

Mixed result

99% match

From these pigments

#C58A63

Pigment recipe

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. Titanium White
PW6
75%
2. Burnt Sienna
PBr7
14%
3. Burnt Umber
PBr7
7%
4. Alizarin Crimson
PR83
4%

What colours make Skin Tone (Medium)?

Titanium White, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, and Alizarin Crimson, in roughly a 75:14:7:4 ratio.

How to make Skin Tone (Medium) in oil

Start with Titanium White at about 75% as your oil base, then work in Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, and Alizarin Crimson in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #C68A63.

Why mix Skin Tone (Medium) instead of buying it

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

Common mistakes

White cools and chalks a mix as you add it, so tint in small steps and stop before it goes pastel.

Get this recipe for your paint brand

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

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Deep-dive guide

How to mix Medium 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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