"I think it would be silly to be uncomfortable. There is no reason why someone would feel uncomfortable unless they were ashamed of their color." (Matt W)

"I learned that there are many variances to skin color, it’s more than white, black, and yellow. I learned that no two people have the same skin color." (Dave)

"You could be a white guy but have a different skin color of another white guy." (Kelvin)

"It was interesting to look at tiles of people who I thought had similar skin simultaneously. The tiles were actually very different." (Matt E.)

"…I learned that nobody has the exact same skin color even though some may look the same color. If you look more, you’ll realize that your skin might be darker or lighter. I also learned that if you look at different parts of your body, some skin may be lighter than other parts of your skin because part of your skin is exposed to the sun, while others aren’t. At first I thought that it could be easy but it seemed very hard." (Ivie)

"No one is a people color. Yellow is a very helpful color. If you keep adding white to brown, it never gets light enough." (Tricia)

"A lot of people didn’t want to find an exact copy of their partner’s skin, and just used what they had." (John P)

"Skin tones are more difficult than I thought. No one’s exact color can ever be duplicated." (Lyzz)

"I was surprised my color didn’t need to be mixed and my partner’s skin color was exactly the same." (Mike)

"Some people get offended when you portray their skin as the wrong color." (John F.)

"I learned that categorizing somebody by their skin color is ignorant since everybody’s skin color is unique and very hard, if not impossible, to replicate. No two people have the exact same skin color." (Sherar)

"I learned that we are not all the same shade. I know there is black and white. But no two white people had the same shade, nor did any black people." (Tinia)

"It would have been more amusing if Simon had painted a canvas white and I had painted one black. None of the canvases matched their models. Some people perceived the colors different than others." (Andrew)

"Everyone’s skin color is unique." (Amanda)

"Skin color is not easily determined/classified, whether it be with paint, with words, etc." (Brian)

"I learned that white people have darker skin color than I perceived. I learned that you can actually have a bit of green in someone’s skin color. And I learned that a person can’t have just skin color on their body." (Frankie)

"I didn’t realize how many different shades make up a person’s skin color. I had to use such shades as green and red to form a better tone." (Sarita)

"I realized that people have weird tinted colors as part of their skin color (such as green, yellow, or blue)." (Kira)

" ‘White skin’ is harder to match than ‘dark’ skin. Implication: when I think about white people, I usually think of them all being the same, but racially or ethnically, or on the basis of skin color, there is huge variation. Also, there is an aspect of human skin that cannot be captured in paint. It glows. …. I was impressed by how little this group was constrained by racism or race-consciousness. I had a good time joking around about skin color, and didn’t feel threatened." (Jacob)

"It was HARD!!!!…. A person is multi-colored. For my subject, his lower arm was tanned, but the upper arm wasn’t and the arms were not the same color as his cheeks." (Richie)

"I found out (as if I didn’t know) that no person is one color but a combination of multiple colors. Everyone’s color is unique." (Ernald)

"It’s kind of silly/impractical to classify a person as ‘white, black, yellow’or ‘red’ because real people are not just one color." (Betty)

"I had never really looked at someone’s skin that carefully and tried to decide what color it was." (Lauren)