 Hey guys, I thought I would bring you today a really quick like Watercolor Wednesday quickie. I don't know what else to call it. So I'm working on some lessons out of one of my Gene Haynes books and if you really want to learn more about expressive watercolors, you really should think about getting one of her books. Right now I'm working in atmospheric watercolors and I've got to do a human figure and I want to mix some flush tones with my watercolor paints. Now I've shown this before with acrylic paint and of course it's possible with watercolor. The process is very similar to acrylic paint but I thought I'd show you what I'm talking about. So I've got my Daniel Smith palette here and it's kind of off-camera so that you can see a close-up of what I'm doing and not really a close-up of the actual palette of paints. So the first thing I want to do is I want to mix up kind of an orange. So I'm going to use permanent red just as bright red. I need kind of a lot of it. I forgot to change my watercolor water but it's all dirty but that's okay. And then I'm going to use Hansa Yellow. You can use any like Lemony Yellow that you have and make an orange. Okay that's nice but it's very orange see. People's skin isn't really that color so we want to peach it up. So we want to peach it up a little bit by adding a little bit of blue and I'm going to use the truest blue I have, Ultramarine Blue. Just a little bit goes a long way. That actually might be too much but we'll see because that made it too green. Look at that. You can tell without putting that on the paper that's too green. So let's add some more red back and just keep playing with it until you get a color that you like that works for you. And then what I would recommend is once you get a color that you like that works is make some notes on how you got there. That's actually not bad. Now if I'm trying to match my own skin color that's pretty close. I like that. So there you have it. Of course you can buy flesh tone colored paints in all your different paint kinds of paint including water soluble paint but mostly it's going to be a gouache and it's not going to be watercolor. It's not going to be translucent and you're going to have to mix something and knowing how to mix paint will lend you very well going forward in creating fabulous art. So think about doing that and don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Play, have fun and enjoy life. All right that's it for right now guys. I'll see you later. Bye.