Use your mixing palette to mix your colors. Start with pure color on both ends of your scale. For the middle color add equal amounts of the two pure colors. To each pure color add small amounts of the compliment so that you have five steps on either side of the middle color. Name printed neatly and ledgibly in lower left corner with date.
Value is the darkness or the lightness of a color.
Change the value of a color by adding small amounts of white or black to it. Use only one color plus black and white. Use your mixing palette to mix your colors. Start with pure color in the middle of your scale. Add black to form the colors on one side and white to form the colors on the other side.