Butch Krieger

The revival of traditional art styles and techniques has burgeoned into a full-fledged Second Renaissance. And this re-awakening has sparked a renewed interest in the colors used by the great masters of the past. It was thus inevitable that someone would produce the traditional pigments in watercolors...

In the April 2006 issue of Watercolor Artist (formerly Watercolor Magic), Butch Krieger introduced Rublev Colours Watercolors to the magazine's readers in the article "Painting Flesh Tones with a Three Color Palette." The Rublev Colours Flesh Tint Palette is a triad of traditional earth pigments that many 18th- and 19th-century watercolorists used to mix their flesh tones...

Step-by-step instructions for painting portraits using earth pigments which lend themselves to making flesh tones. Some of them even look just like flesh colors right out of the tube without your having to mix them...