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Joan, I am not sure if this will be helpfu - my photos of my work are not the greatest, but I thought I would show some of the important things you can do without leaving home.
First, I did have the great opportunity of taking workshops, and one of them was Marvin's. His palette is very comprehensive but very simplified when compared to one like Daniel Greene's. It is hard to have really "bad skin" when using it. I do concur with Marvin that a lot of the problems are not color, but value and drawing.
Finally getting things to click for me, was a very intense but enjoyable study of Bouguereau using Marvin's palette. Many people think the reproduction studies of the "masters" are not of value, but once you get the paintings to offer a resemblance, you have learned tons. For myself it was a question of value, and how not to make the dark side darker, but work with the subtle changes of chroma and line to form the head. I can't tell you what a life changing event it was for me.
Although, I might not produce the effect or I should I say skill like the studies, I am very aware of what may be going off course, which I think is very important in the learning process.
Just to illustrate here are three samples; I apologize if they do not reproduce well, I know one person in particular who can attest to my bad photography skills of my paintings.
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