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Renee, yes, if you have plain 'ole Old Holland Naples Yellow it is not good. It's a weak color, you can use to lighten something but not to mix rich starting flesh tones. You need the Deep, a totally different animal.
Look at a broader palette as you would look to a grand piano instead of a kiddie piano if you were to play some serious music. Not as a matter of more choices, or possible confusion, but as a range of richness always there, even if you sometime decide to play a little minuet.
I will post my 36-plus-white palette in the materials and technique section in the near future.
Copying old masters paintings is indeed a very good idea, and you can do it from books, but of course better at the Met or any other museum.
Happy Holidays!
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