The document provides instructions for mixing skin tones in paintings. It discusses using white, yellow, red and blue to create light skin tones, and yellow, brown, and blue or red to create dark skin tones. Students are tasked with experimenting with mixing a range of skin tones and noting the colors they used. The document also provides directions for building tones in a portrait by starting with a transparent wash and gradually adding medium and dark tones. As homework, students are asked to collect images of people showing a variety of skin tones and hair colors.

1. Mixing Skin Tones

2. Basic Light Pallet
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•Mix lots of white with a little
yellow and a touch of red
•Add a dot of blue to cool
down the colour
•To create shadows mix
brown with red, yellow,
white and a touch of black

3. Basic Dark Pallet
• Warm tones = Yellow, Brown
and Red.
• Cool tones=
Yellow, Brown and Blue
• To create highlights mix yellow
and white with a touch of
brown and red
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4. Task: Experiment with mixing a range of skin
tones (write notes about the colours you have mixed)
Light Pallet
Dark Pallet
My own
skin tones
Red white and yellow
(need to add more white)
Yellow and brown
(will make a good base)
Yellow and brown (need to add
white to make my highlights)

6. Watercolour Painting
Building tones within a portrait image
1.Transparent wash of
lightest tones
2. Allow to dry and
add medium tones
3. Add dark tones and
blend with water
Light Medium Dark

7. Homework
• Collect magazine images of people
You will need lots of examples of skin
tones and hair colours for next
lesson

8. Homework
• Number 5
• Due in Wednesday 17th
of December

9. Hwk, due Friday 26th
• Research an artist .......Van Gogh, Rembrandt,
Cindy Sherman, Chuck Close.
• Add images, sketches,

10. Homework due after half term
• Create a self portrait in the style of the artist
you researched, e.g. Van Gogh, show the
influence of Van Gogh’s use of bright colours
and brushstrokes.

11. Homework due Friday 16th
• Over the next 5 weeks you will producing
different portraits
• This week Dotted Self Portrait..
• Look at homeork no. 7 (1)
• Pointellism