What I love about iconography is that you can use a very limited palette - (thinks quickly): black, white, yellow ochre/mars yellow, red ochre, a green ochre e.g. avanna, a brown e.g. burnt umber and if necessary a blue (I like Lapis or azurite, for a more greeny blue). With these seven colours you can create almost any tone required for an icon and most of them won't be used for flesh - you only need three or perhaps four for that.
Having done almost all of the flesh so far with yellow and more or less white, we now bring in red, this time an English red ochre which is warm but not too bluey or to muddy. A combination of washes, light 'hatching' type strokes and small areas of more concentrated colour warm up the flesh to create a more vivid presence. (That's the theory anyway!).
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