Drawing lessons - illustrated lesson notes for teachers and students

Art lessons - learn about skin-coloring in portrait painting

Above is an example of my deliberate abandonment of any warm flesh tints. The addicted girl is raised from the

mire .... As a student I was once given white, payne's grey, raw umber and burnt sienna and told to paint a cup

and saucer on a white table cloth. Since then flesh colors became less of a problem. Anyone familiar with make-

up (scumbling for artists) should have no problems.

STUDENT ACTIVITY: Television has come to make most people believe flesh color is more red/orange that

it really is. Why is that? Explain in 200 words.

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