{"id":1569,"date":"2010-12-02T12:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:12:00","slug":"wooden-dress-skin-tones-pt2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/wooden-dress-skin-tones-pt2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Dress: Skin tones, pt2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Again working on the skin tones. So, I’ve finally created about 15 skin tones that match actual people! I eventually got a some red dye, and mixing it with various amounts of brown shades, green, yellow, and blue, I got shades that looked so close, but for some reason weren’t quite what I wanted. One morning, I looked at my own wrist, to which matching foundation shades has always been difficult, and realized that my problem was that I was trying to match this dead piece of wood to something alive and continually changing. Then, I remembered that whether or not I was finding the right shades, I was going to have to match skin tones with the finished pieces of wood, so I added some oil to the wood to see what it looked like. What a difference! What I found was that by adding some Dutch or Tung oil to the wood, I got the depth I needed to replicate skin tone enough so that someone could say, “Hey, that’s me!” After that, I started finding people of various skin tones to match and found that with the oil, I was really successful – even to the point of knowing that in some cases, I’d already found the right shade.<\/p>\n

Here are some pictures…I just tacked them to the end of another Flickr group.<\/p>\n

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Again working on the skin tones. So, I’ve finally created about 15 skin tones that match actual people! I eventually got a some red dye, and mixing it with various amounts of brown shades, green, yellow, and blue, I got shades that looked so close, but for some reason weren’t quite what I wanted. One … Continue reading “Wooden Dress: Skin tones, pt2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[231,228],"tags":[282,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}