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Canvas: The meaning of canvas I use here is: What material paint was applied to .. wood, stone (what color stone). To know the intent of the original artist you would need to know what color the canvas and what colors the paints were.

These statues or paintings are supposed to be images of Tut. Paint Flaking

When you see paint flaking from a wall or from a statue, you can think.. OK, where the paint is flaked off you can see the original color of the canvas before the artist chose these colors to represent the original person.
Note, all the paint on the  images of Tut are dark reddish brown, to almost black.

You can see where the paint is flaking off Tut's statute that the original canvas (material it was made of) was almost white.
Tut's tomb was full of images of him... and every time the artist chose a color to paint his face, they chose a dark brownish red to black paint to create his skin color..

Canvas = natural color of the clay or stone an image was painted on.

DRAWING vs PAINTING

I am not what actual terms apply in art, but the differences I speak of here are like the stick men we drew in grade school.. using a pencil to draw the general outline of a person or animal.. all black lead on a single color back ground.
Later we might of used red to color the lips and blue to color the eye balls, but the color of the flesh was not filled in and remained the color of our canvas (what ever we were drawing on).
Below I have an actual painting of some Egyptian guy in a tomb and above I have some different color stones. Above is the what the drawing would have looked like on that particular color stone.

Below is what it would have looked like if it was painted (instead of drawn) on those different color stones.
If it were painted on a green stone, the guys skin would have been brown.
If it were painted on a tan stone, the guys skin would have been brown.
If it were painted on a pink stone, the guys skin would have been brown.
If it were painted on a gray stone, the guys skin would have been brown.

But if it were a drawing, the skin would take on the color of the stone.. green, tan, pink or gray.

I suppose people were always vain like we are today, they wanted pictures to reflect their own image. 

What color do you figure Tut was by the statues, pictures created after his own image?

No matter what colors of skin you think ancient Egyptians may have, go to the tombs, count any pictures that remain in tact and tell us what % of that tomb paintings were of black / brown skin people.
Don't pick just a couple to through the manifest of all recorded paintings or sculptures and write what % ________ of them were of brown/black skin people.

Drawings do NOT reflect the artist view of the subject's skins, but when they filled in the skin color with paintings and went to the trouble of selecting the colors for the skin of the models, why do you suppose they selected brown/black for that %_________ of the images they painted?

The reason the ancient Egyptians used brown/black paint to color the skin of their subjects is the very same reason why the European artist used white/pink to reflect the skin colors of Europeans.

Below: Note the guy and the girl are different colors. Unless the artist were trying to reflect the skin tones of his subject, why would he bother to paint them different colors?

It appears Anny Egyptian stayed home during the week watching Ophra and Eddy Egyptian was working outside on the pyramids in the sun. No matter what the cause, the artist intentionally painted them different hues of brown.
Instead of using the skin color of the milk face  of Europeans, what would make the ancient artist choose shades of brown to almost black, to reflect the colors of the skin of the ancient Egyptians?

Egyptians like people in any part of the world have different shades of skin color. Ancient European and Egyptians painted different people in the same pictures, different colors.

The ancient Egyptians were able to create any hue to reflect the skin color of their subjects. 

( ONLY in the case of paint protected from the elements) When you are looking at paintings of ancient Egyptians, you are seeing what the ancient Egyptian artist saw. When paint is exposed to the elements, the paint will fade.. meaning it will become lighter. In the case of all paintings subjected to the elements over thousands of years, the original color of the skin would have been darker.

To estimate the original colors of paintings of ancient Egyptians (when exposed to the elements), a sample of the paint could be taken to see what it was composed of, then that color would be matched with the color of the paint in places where it was protected from the elements.

Using a color temperature meter a color chart could be created for each mixture of fresh paint. i.e. get a chemical composition of what any area of an image is made of. They would know what the paint was made of and the percentage of the mixture in the paint. Make a batch of that mixture, paint it on the same kind of surface and that would be what the original artist saw as they painted their subjects.

Take a color temperatures reading of the paint after it was dried and apply that color to all faded / flaking wall paintings or statues.

King Tuts tomb was sealed for centuries, for future generations these images should be recorded and given the color temperatures needed to re-create a duplicate image as seen while the original artist composed it.

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