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Color blocking the face

Color blocking the face

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Color blocking the face

The colors I'm using for the flesh tone should relate back to what I've already used, which is permanent rose, cadmium red and probably that's it. I may not need to add any yellow because there's so much yellow in the green underneath. I'm also using clean water to make sure that this is a really clean tone for the skin. I'm using a smaller brush because it's not a very big space, the face. Okay. So, right now the painting looks fairly cool and the warmest thing up here is probably the hair. So let's just see what happens when I put the skin tone down. I'm going to try to keep it light, because it's skin, and his skin is quite light. Again, I have to be very quick with this, because I don't want an edge of watercolor in the middle of his face. That will not look good. I might add just a tiny bit of yellow. I don't know. I'll have to see. Again, I have to remind myself that this is one layer, and I can add more color to it later. And as you can see, as soon as I throw this pinkish…

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