Do you find your struggle mixing your own skin colours? Well in today's video I'm going to show you some top tips on how to make that an awful lot easier. Coming up. Hi again there guys, Emma here from Painting Peanour. I'm giving you some top tips for all things art and design. And in today's video we're going to learn how to mix skin tone. There are loads of videos out there guys in terms of how to mix skin tone for acrylic paints. But this is going to go one step further. The whole point of Painting Peanour is to give you some of those extra top tips to help make your painting skills so much easier. So we're not just going to learn how to just do the skin tones, but we're also going to show you a fantastic top tip in terms of when you mix colours knowing how you can get those colours back again without losing them in a whole mod podge of colour mixing. Alrighty let's have a look at the video. Here we go. Alright then guys so here's the colours I'm actually going to be using today. So I've just simply gone with the titanium white and then you can see I've got the 3 primary colours here. There's no black you'll notice. The only interesting note I suppose really here is that I've gone with the actual warm yellow as opposed to the cool yellow. And then these, it doesn't matter so much with the red and the blue. I've actually gone here with the cooler red and the warmer blue. But this is the key. You want to slightly orangey yellow. If you don't have the warm yellow you just have a cool yellow or a variation of that. It is fine. The focus here is that we're using the 3 primary colours because we want to mix a tertiary colour. So when it comes to doing actual skin tone it always used to make me laugh when I was at school because they would talk about skin tone being 80% white, 10% red, 10% yellow. Of course that's a very Caucasian skin. So what I'm going to be producing for you guys is what I would call your basic tertiary colour. Just a quick recap tertiary colours involve all 3 primary colours. They often get mistreated even in art school. So you've got to have all elements of the primary colours in order to create a tertiary colour. So of course the ultimate tertiary colour is brown. So I'm going to start by mixing the brown to start with. So in an ideal world you'll have 33% yellow, red and blue. You'll notice how I'm taking the paint. I'm actually coming from underneath. I'm not going on top because that's where you contaminate your paint. And you'll also notice here this is key. So I've just put my 3 colours next to each other. So again I'm not contaminating at this stage. Now when we start to mix this is the trick that I want to show you guys. So I'm just going to start mixing this brown colour. It might not come out on the camera quite so well. And of course it's pretty difficult to be a perfectly accurate in terms of 33.333%. But you can get the jest. That's a fairly decent brown colour that I've got going on here. Now in order to make my skin tones, what I want to have now is when I'm going to start adding my white, I don't want to go into this area here. You see a lot of people mix in colours and they just produce a mass block of colour. And it's then really difficult to control and you also forget which colours you've had previously. So this is the trick I want to show you guys. So I'm going to take my white and I'm going to take quite a lot of white. And I'm going to mix this just next to my brown. Now straight away I can see that having mixed that into the brown colour I had already, there's way too much red. You can almost see that this has turned out pink. And again it's one of those things that people seem to think that our skin tones are generally pink. They're actually mainly yellow, believe it or not. So what I'm going to do here is I need to add a little bit of yellow. And again watch what happens here. I'm going to leave this colour because you never know. Later on I'm going to have a colour that's just like that. And I'm going to work my colour next to it. Now I've got a lot of pigments on my brush. So I don't need to actually be adding those individual colours. This is kind of my base colour that I've started with. So you can see here now that the three different colours I've got going on, this is obviously a lot yellow. It's still pretty dark. Alright, if I'm going for a tonal colour, I'm going to be pretty tan because it's just coming to the end of our summer. But I'm just going to add a little bit more white into here. And again, I'm going to start mixing it next to that original colour. In theory, you would cover the whole of your palette with different areas and different skin tones. You know, the trick is we don't want to keep going back into that same area. So you're going to end up with variations of that colour. If some people are even now actually right above the rough size or the rubber portions, that's a little bit excessive for me. And I would never ever be able to get that exact same colour. But, you know, it just gives you a good reference point. So I'm just going to keep adding white here. So I'm going to get to my coolest point. A little bit more yellow, I think, as well. And then that's what you would go with, that's more of a traditional Caucasian skin tone. This is the key, guys, that you've got all those three colours. So in theory, let's say these have dried out. You've still got the evidence there. So if you need to mix up those colours, then obviously you would just go to the three that you had originally. I need to start to try and mix those colours just below. So you can see that reference point like so. Now, one last tip, guys, in terms of colour mixing is really important that you want to be able to maintain the acrylics, acrylics are notorious for actually drying out really quickly. So what I'd like to show you today is a top tip that I like to use in terms of keeping your colours from drying out. So all I've done here is I've taken, this is actually an old olive part. You can use any food where at home, but a tub's are really good for things like this. Anything that's plastic, of course, plastic being the curse of the world at the moment. If you can reuse plastic, all the better. So all I've done here is I've simply taken this olive part. I've actually kept the sleeve on. You could in theory just use some cling film and put it over the top. But all I'm doing here is this has already got a nice firm seal anyway, so I can tape this down later. So you can see that I've got my colours in here. I've actually just sprayed a little bit of water beforehand just to keep them nice and moist because it could be another 24 hours before I decided to use these paints. And then all I want to do is basically seal, tape this over, and then they should be good to go without drying out tomorrow. So there you have it guys, I hope you enjoyed today's video on how to mix skin tones, how to generally mix tertiary colours, and also how to keep your colours separate. We've also shown you how to keep those acrylic paints from drying out. It's a plenty of top tips in today's video. If you have enjoyed the video then please do hit that like button just below as it really does help our channel. And if you'd like to see some more weekly top tips just like this today, we do upload videos every Wednesday and Saturday. All right, guys, we'll see you next time. Happy painting.