Paint a value scale of tints.

1. Using red straight from the bottle or tube, paint the first block in the scale.
2. Next, mix the tiniest amount of white with red [remember you must mix your colors on your palette thoroughly first!]. Adjust as necessary to achieve only one step higher in value. [Hint – paint dries a little darker or lighter than it looks wet. Test yours on a scrap piece of paper. Is it darker when it’s dry or lighter?]
3. Now, take some white and mix the tiniest amount of red with it. Why did we move to work on the right when we were working on the left? Because you will tend to waste less paint by mixing colors into white to achieve your tint rather than white into colors.
4. Continue to create your tints of red from right to left.
5. Paint the last square white.