I sure had a lot of fun doing this — one of the offerings from the VIP side of Fresh Paint. I don’t know where Ali Kay got the reference, but I followed along (to some extent) her video.

I had toned this 10×10 canvas some time ago in India Yellow Hue from Golden Paints. India Yellow Hue is transparent, and is a mix of PY150, PY175 and PR122. For my darks, I used Golden’s Raw Umber. For the reds, I used Blick’s Artist Grade Alizarin Crimson Hue, and then a mix of Blick’s Pyrrole Red (PR 254) with some Yellow Ochre and White.

For the skin tone, I used PR170 (Naphthol Crimson) and Liquitex’s Cad-Free Lemon Yellow, a combo I had tested out before and liked — I just kept adding white as necessary.

I decided to include some of the “messy middle” paintings in this post.