What two colors make deep skin tone?

Chromilla's watercolor recipe uses 3 tubes rather than two: 68% Yellow Ochre, 27% Cadmium Red and 5% Ivory Black. Yellow Ochre leads the mix. Chromilla's model predicts a 92% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

What is the hex code for deep skin tone?

Chromilla uses #6B3F2A as the target for deep skin tone. The watercolor recipe is predicted to dry to about #603827.

How to Mix Deep Skin Tone in Watercolor

Quick answer

To mix deep skin tone (#6B3F2A) in watercolor, use 68% Yellow Ochre, 27% Cadmium Red and 5% Ivory Black. Chromilla's model predicts a 92% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out. Chromilla is a web-based paint color mixer that turns any color, from a photo, the camera or a hex code, into exact paint-tube ratios for acrylic, oil and watercolor, using Kubelka-Munk pigment mixing and aiming at the color after it dries.

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Target

Deep Skin Tone

#6B3F2A

Predicted dry result

92% match when dry

Mix to #693D28 while wet. It dries to about #603827.

Deep Skin Tone in watercolor: tube ratios, and ml for a 100 ml batch
Paint	Pigment	Share	100 ml batch
Yellow Ochre	PY43	68%	68 ml
Cadmium Red	PR108	27%	27 ml
Ivory Black	PBk9	5%	5 ml

How we calculated this: Kubelka-Munk pigment mixing, then a per-medium dry shift, scored with CIEDE2000. Method and accuracy benchmark. Last checked August 2026.

Terms used here: Tinting strength, Dry shift, Kubelka-Munk, Delta E (dE2000), Pigment code, Gamut.

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

Pigment recipe

Checked August 2026

Ratios calibrated for watercolor. 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
68%
2. Cadmium Red
PR108
27%
3. Ivory Black
PBk9
5%

What colors make Deep Skin Tone?

Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red, and Ivory Black, in roughly a 68:27:5 ratio.

How to make Deep Skin Tone in watercolor

Start with Yellow Ochre at about 68% as your watercolor 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.

Variations on Deep Skin Tone

Each variation is its own target (lighter and darker move OKLCH lightness by 0.08; warmer and cooler turn the hue 12 degrees toward red or blue), solved fresh.

Lighter Deep Skin Tone

#835540

4 parts Viridian Green, 2 parts Cadmium Red and 1 part Titanium White. Chromilla's model predicts a 92% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Darker Deep Skin Tone

#542A15

71% Raw Umber, 24% Alizarin Crimson and 5% Ivory Black. Chromilla's model predicts a 95% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Warmer Deep Skin Tone

#6D3D32

9 parts Cadmium Red, 4 parts Ultramarine Blue and 2 parts Titanium White. Chromilla's model predicts a 94% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Cooler Deep Skin Tone

#6D3D32

9 parts Cadmium Red, 4 parts Ultramarine Blue and 2 parts Titanium White. Chromilla's model predicts a 94% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Deep Skin Tone questions

What two colors make deep skin tone?: Chromilla's watercolor recipe uses 3 tubes rather than two: 68% Yellow Ochre, 27% Cadmium Red and 5% Ivory Black. Yellow Ochre leads the mix. Chromilla's model predicts a 92% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
How do you make deep skin tone paint lighter without losing the hue?: Re-balance the mix instead of only adding white. For a lighter deep skin tone (#835540) in watercolor, Chromilla mixes 4 parts Viridian Green, 2 parts Cadmium Red and 1 part Titanium White. Chromilla's model predicts a 92% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
What is the hex code for deep skin tone?: Chromilla uses #6B3F2A as the target for deep skin tone. The watercolor recipe is predicted to dry to about #603827.

Deep Skin Tone in other mediums

Deep Skin Tone in Acrylic: 68% Yellow Ochre, 27% Cadmium Red and 5% Ivory Black, predicted 93% dry match by Chromilla's color model.
Deep Skin Tone in Oil: 68% Yellow Ochre, 27% Cadmium Red and 5% Ivory Black, predicted 98% dry match by Chromilla's color model.

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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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