My strategy for painting the skin tones was to pick 3 tones--light, medium, and dark--and to use the color picker in procreate or chroma magic to find pretty colors for these tones in the reference. I then painted these tones very thinly (I don't use gamsol, so this was just a thin application of pure paint). I picked a mid brown for the hair and grays for the background. Basically, I wanted to cover the panel with thin paint so that the next step of refining the colors wouldn't seem so daunting, because the basic tone was already sort of correct. Another reason to cover the panel with paint is that it makes a thicker top layer nicer to lay down and not feel so dry. There is a downside to using straight paint--it can be dry!
I'm still figuring out how I want my paint texture to be. I like how flowy paint is when you add a medium, but I wan't to avoid solvents, which are often in the medium. I like the feel of Gamblin's solvent free gel, but I noticed that if I don't apply it evenly with all my paint, the parts with the gel in it come out super shiny and the others are more dull. I will continue to experiment.
Thank you to Moon on the Museum by Sktchy app for the reference photo. 8x8” oil paint on mdf panel.
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