Radiant Flesh 17ml

Radiant Flesh — light skin for figures

A light flesh shade from the 3rd Generation acrylic range. It is a water-thinnable acrylic meant above all for painting figures and heads in small scales. Flesh tones are never used alone on a model: they are worked as a scale, where a light shade of this kind serves to lighten the raised areas, while the shadow is mixed toward a warm gray and brown.

Use

• Lightening the forehead, the nose, the cheekbones and the backs of the hands.
• The final highlights on skin painted with a darker base tone.
• Mixing a flesh scale of your own, from the base to the lightest accent.
• Light areas on exposed parts of the body in larger scales, where the transition shows well.

Layering and working with a scale

The key with skin is a smooth transition, and that is made by layering heavily thinned paint, not by a single stroke. Apply the base tone, let it dry and build the highlights up gradually over a smaller and smaller area: each further coat should be lighter and smaller. Acrylics dry fast, so it pays to work on a wet palette or to keep wetting the paint on the palette. On figures in small scales it is better to overdo the contrast a little: under ordinary lighting the transitions compress to the eye. Shake the bottle before use and always try the shade on a dried sample, not on a wet palette.

Who it is for

For figure painters and modelers who paint a crew or infantry on a model and need a reliable light step in the flesh scale.

An acrylic paint. Store out of reach of children and ventilate the room and protect your airways while spraying.