How to Mix Porcelain Skin in Oil

A pale, cool porcelain skin tone. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #F0D5C0 in oil, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.

Honest note: with every pigment held at 3% or above so you can actually measure it, the closest mixable answer is roughly a 81% match on oil. Open the mixer to try a wider palette.

Target

Porcelain Skin

#F0D5C0

Mixed result

81% match

From these pigments

#D7BD9C

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
94%
2. Burnt Umber
PBr7
3%
3. Viridian Green
PG18
3%

What colours make Porcelain Skin?

Titanium White, Burnt Umber, and Viridian Green, in roughly a 94:3:3 ratio.

How to make Porcelain Skin in oil

Start with Titanium White at about 94% as your oil base, then work in Burnt Umber and Viridian Green in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #F0D5C0.

Why mix Porcelain Skin instead of buying it

Mixing Porcelain Skin yourself lets you approximate an expensive or hard to find tube from pigments you already own, match Porcelain Skin 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 Porcelain Skin + oil pre-loaded and calibrate to your tubes.

Open in mixer

Related mixing guides

Pigment mixing is subtractive, so small ratio changes matter. The mixer refines this recipe to your brand and updates on the fly.