This document provides instructions for an assignment to create color scales demonstrating tints, shades, and tones of three given hues. Students will divide their paper into strips and further divide each strip into blocks to paint incremental values from a pure hue to its tint, shade, or neutralized tone. The grading rubric evaluates the smoothness of value transition across each scale and the professional quality of craftsmanship. The goal is for students to understand how hue, value, and chroma vary and influence one another.

1. Design Fundamentals de
Beaufort
Shading,Tinting, Tones
Assignment:
Hue is not the only characteristic of color. Each hue can be mixed with other hues to create a
broad range of chromatic browns, blacks, and grays, as well as lightened to produce tints, and
darkened to produce shades . Additionally each color can be slowly de- saturated to produce a
gray of equal value . In this way, literally millions of colors can be conceived each with a specific
value, intensity and hue . We will attempt to break this overwhelming variety down by
incrementally tinting, shading, and neutralizing 3 given hues.
Directions:
1. Using a large paper cutter or my help, divide your illustration board into strips at least 5"x15".
This is important because you may end up making an error on one of the value grades, and it's
easier to complete them individually in case they need to be re-painted. Gouache is difficult to
paint over, unlike acrylic.
2. With a pencil evenly divide a strip at least 3" tall into 7-11 evenly spaced blocks 1" wide. Tape
the outer perimeter with drafting tape or painters tape. Paint over the edge with white gouache
and dry to prevent bleeding beneath the tape edge.
3. Starting with a pure hue of yellow, red, green, or blue create a value grade by incrementally:
tinting, shading, or neutralizing your hue. If you are neutralizing the hue, you must first create a
gray of equal value by mixing appropriate amounts of white and black.
4. After each grade, tape the far edge and repeat. It would be a good idea to use a scrap sheet to
gauge color.
5. You must make 3 color scales: 1 tinted, 1 shaded, 1 neutralized (tones).
Student Learning Objectives:
1. Color: By creating incrementally graded scales, students understand and implement concepts
of tinting, shading, and chroma/saturation (tones) . Each hue has it's own natural value
and behavior as it is neutralized, shaded, or tinted, and students become familiar with these
characteristics.
2. Design: Students utilize basic tools in order to create a value scale or spectrum.
Grading Rubric:
TINTS (25 pts.) : All tints are appropriately mixed and evenly differentiated. There are no
obvious jumps from one tint to the next that seem abrupt. Each tint is well mixed and the whole
piece is visually appealing with a beautiful shift across the spectrum.
SHADES (25 pts.): All shades are appropriately mixed and evenly differentiated. There are no
obvious jumps from one shade to the next that seem abrupt. Each shade is well mixed and the
whole piece is visually appealing with a beautiful shift across the spectrum.
NEUTRAL TONES (25 pts.): All tones are appropriately mixed and evenly differentiated.

2. There are no obvious jumps from one tone to the next that seem abrupt. Each tone is well mixed
and the whole piece is visually appealing with a beautiful shift across the spectrum.
CRAFT/PROFESSIONALISM (25pts): The project is neat and precise, there are no
blemishes, spills, errant marks, bleed -unders, or scuffs that distract the viewer. The paint is
evenly applied and does not appear streaky or splotchy.
100 points total