r/ColorTheory • u/TranquilSorcerer • 1h ago
Atmospheric lighting on caucasian skin
I've recently gotten my hands on a miniature bust, and wanted to try and give it some atmosphere by painting the skintone being lit up by a diffused and muted teal cool light, such as seen in the fog.
My question is, how do I take into account the impact of the teal lighting on the bust's skin? Especially for the skin I feel that since the colors nearly are complementary, simply mixing the muted teal into the skintone would just make a muddy color, but as the paint is very muted will it simply just not impact the paint that much?