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CLASSICAL OIL PAINTING - COLOR & SKIN TONES

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SKIN COLOR.

There is a skin tone - and it can be mixed the way the old masters mixed it. I'm Uri Shavit, a classically trained oil painter. I teach the part of painting most artists struggle with: color - with clear, practical lessons you can take straight to your easel.

134K subscribers on YouTube · 20+ years of teaching

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NEW · MY FIRST BOOK IS HERE

The Palette Behind the Portrait

Six of my finished oil paintings, opened up - the exact skin-tone recipes, the palette, the swatches, and where each color goes on the face.

$̶1̶9̶.̶9̶5̶  $6.95  YOUR WELCOME GIFT

SEE INSIDE THE BOOK →

It comes wrapped with my free skin-tone cheat sheet - grab it and the welcome price is yours.

FROM THE CHANNEL

COMING SOON

THE SKIN TONES MASTERCLASS

A new 6-part series on color and skin tones, the classical way. Episode 1: Light vs Shadow. Join the cheat sheet list to hear first.

Why Value Matters More Than Color in Painting

77K views

Painting Lesson: Reductive Technique (Full Demo)

147K views

The Master's Guide to Color Matching in Oil Painting

40K views

FREE

THE SKIN TONE CHEAT SHEET

Yellow ochre, vermilion, the two umbers, ultramarine, white and black - the extended classical palette I teach in my studio, distilled to one page you can take straight to the easel.

Seven pigments. Every mix in the method.

SELECTED WORK

Oil

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Oil

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Charcoal

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Pastel

“Painting is my passion and I love sharing and teaching my methods, tools of the trade and everything I learned over the many years of practicing my art.”

- Uri Shavit

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