What two colors make porcelain skin?

Chromilla's watercolor recipe uses 3 tubes rather than two: 93% Titanium White, 4% Viridian Green and 3% Cadmium Red. Titanium White leads the mix. Chromilla's model predicts an 84% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

How do you make porcelain skin paint lighter without losing the hue?

Lighten in small steps and compare against the target each time. Chromilla's palette struggles with a lighter porcelain skin (#FFF3E9) in watercolor: Chromilla's model predicts a 75% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

What is the hex code for porcelain skin?

Chromilla uses #F0D5C0 as the target for porcelain skin. The watercolor recipe is predicted to dry to about #D4BEB1.

Can I mix porcelain skin without black?

Yes. Chromilla's watercolor recipe uses no black: 93% Titanium White, 4% Viridian Green and 3% Cadmium Red.

How to Mix Porcelain Skin in Watercolor

Quick answer

To mix porcelain skin (#F0D5C0) in watercolor, use 93% Titanium White, 4% Viridian Green and 3% Cadmium Red. That falls short: Chromilla's model predicts an 84% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out. Try the mixer with your own tubes. 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

Porcelain Skin

#F0D5C0

Predicted dry result

84% match when dry

Mix to #E7CEBE while wet. It dries to about #D4BEB1.

Porcelain Skin in watercolor: tube ratios, and ml for a 100 ml batch
Paint	Pigment	Share	100 ml batch
Titanium White	PW6	93%	93 ml
Viridian Green	PG18	4%	4 ml
Cadmium Red	PR108	3%	3 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 pale, cool porcelain skin tone. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #F0D5C0 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. Titanium White
PW6
93%
2. Viridian Green
PG18
4%
3. Cadmium Red
PR108
3%

What colors make Porcelain Skin?

Titanium White, Viridian Green, and Cadmium Red, in roughly a 93:4:3 ratio.

How to make Porcelain Skin in watercolor

Start with Titanium White at about 93% as your watercolor base, then work in Viridian Green and Cadmium Red 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 color 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.

Variations on Porcelain Skin

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 Porcelain Skin

#FFF3E9

Not a confident recipe: the closest mix is 97% Titanium White and 3% Burnt Umber, and chromilla's model predicts a 75% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Darker Porcelain Skin

#D6BBA7

81% Titanium White, 13% Viridian Green and 6% Cadmium Red. Chromilla's model predicts an 88% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Warmer Porcelain Skin

#F3D3C4

97% Titanium White and 3% Cadmium Red. Chromilla's model predicts an 86% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Cooler Porcelain Skin

#F3D3C4

97% Titanium White and 3% Cadmium Red. Chromilla's model predicts an 86% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Porcelain Skin questions

What two colors make porcelain skin?: Chromilla's watercolor recipe uses 3 tubes rather than two: 93% Titanium White, 4% Viridian Green and 3% Cadmium Red. Titanium White leads the mix. Chromilla's model predicts an 84% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
How do you make porcelain skin paint lighter without losing the hue?: Lighten in small steps and compare against the target each time. Chromilla's palette struggles with a lighter porcelain skin (#FFF3E9) in watercolor: Chromilla's model predicts a 75% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
What is the hex code for porcelain skin?: Chromilla uses #F0D5C0 as the target for porcelain skin. The watercolor recipe is predicted to dry to about #D4BEB1.
Can I mix porcelain skin without black?: Yes. Chromilla's watercolor recipe uses no black: 93% Titanium White, 4% Viridian Green and 3% Cadmium Red.

Porcelain Skin in other mediums

Porcelain Skin in Acrylic: 93% Titanium White, 4% Viridian Green and 3% Cadmium Red, predicted 82% dry match by Chromilla's color model.
Porcelain Skin in Oil: 93% Titanium White, 4% Viridian Green and 3% Cadmium Red, predicted 94% dry match by Chromilla's color model.

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