Series 1.

Matisse formulated three distinct colours as a foundation for recreating light, medium, and dark skin tones. "Skin Tone Light," aptly named, serves as an ideal base for light skin tones, comprising Titanium White, Vermilion, and Transparent Umber.

This colour, though usable straight from the tube, is intended for modification with additional Matisse colours to imbue depth and highlights. Just as human skin is not monochromatic, artists must approach flesh tones with a palette of various tones to achieve depth.

A practical approach involves using Matisse Skin Tone Light as a base and mixing a range of colours. When working from a real subject, a photograph serves as a visual guide to creating diverse skin tones on the palette. Following the photograph's cues, artists blend Matisse Skin Tone Light with other colours until achieving the desired shades. Adding dark colours to light ones proves more effective than the reverse, enhancing efficiency and desirability in the blending process.

Matisse Structure Formula is a rich impasto acrylic paint. 
The intense, vibrant colours of the Structure Formula paints cover the full
colour spectrum, including several uniquely Australian colours.
Only the finest quality pigments and ingredients are selected for the Matisse range of premium acrylic colours. 
All have the highest lightfastness rating of ASTM 1 or 2 and are archival quality.