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It was fun experimenting with how adding colors (whether black, white or others) changes the color you start with. It is obvious how black and white will, but I found it a good reminder how even just a little bit of black can change a color so much, while it took more white to produce the same change. The most interesting and frustrating to me was mixing the complementary colors. I didn’t find myself getting the same nice neutrals that were shown on the lesson. My colors looked pretty gross. I put some white in the cooler tones and the colors started to look a little better. Maybe if I added white to all of the colors to start with, I would have liked the end results better.
I also had a hard time trying to mix the neutrals. I made sure my starting color was in the middle and then I added a little bit of white to one side, adding more for each square to the left and then did the same to the ones on the right with the black. I felt like my neutrals were darker than the lessons as well. I had a hard time with the black and white scale because I had to mix colors to get black, which ended up being a cobalt black so my colors have a somewhat blue tinge. I found that if I needed to have my color lighter, then I stated with white and then added the color to it (lots of trial and error), but that method didn’t work so well on the other side of the spectrum. I really like the way you Value Scale came out, the colors are still so vibrant from left to right. Great job on those!