Video: Color Theory: Tints & Tones

Add black to make a paint color darker. Learn how to change the tint and tones of colors from an art instructor in this free color theory video.

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Tints and tones are another word for making a color lighter by adding white or making a color darker, the tone, by adding black. We're going to see how evenly we can try to get the progression. It's going to be different form color to color. Again, yellow is very, yellow and orange are very light and they're very hard to get really dark. You're never going to get an orange as dark as you're going to get a violet. That's just how it is. We're going to try, today, working with red. The first thing you want to do is putting your red where you think it belongs in terms of a value. A red is not as light as a yellow, let's face it. I'm going to put it down here and see if I like it. Put some there. That looks, when I look across there that looks like it might be the same kind of value, so I'm going to leave it there. Now, I'm going to work with getting it lighter. This is when you find out this is why I've got these separated, so that I can make my white dirty and it doesn't matter. I'm not going to use my white for something else. We're going to move upwards on the scale. Pink is essentially red with white in it, that's what pink is. Obviously, you keep on mixing and you want to see, you can mix infinite gradations of value. You can do this forever and keep adding just a little snippet every once in a while. I just want to add enough so that we're moving perceptively up the value scale. So we're moving perceptively from dark to light.

Color Theory: Tints & Tones

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