Just like a black and white value scale , values or shades can be translated into color.
This is a typical 9-step value scale
To make a color value scale, you can select one color and create tints and shades of that color to make light and dark values.
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Tint: a color created by adding white to a hue
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Shade: a color created by adding black to a hue
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Hue: pure color, as in a color selected from the color wheel
You can have a full key painting using the values of a color, or colors.
A monochromatic painting is a painting that is made up of a hue , tints and shades of that hue, and neutral colors .
Artists sometimes do not use black and white to create tints and shades of colors within their paintings. Instead, they might assign colors to light values, middle grays, and dark values. For example:
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Light values could be assigned yellows, oranges, reds
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Middle values could be greens and blues
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Darker values could be blues and purples and their mixtures
Neutral colors : black, white, and gray. These colors often are intermingled within colorful paintings, but are not considered warm or cool . Cool or warm colors refer to color temperature .
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Warm colors: Reds, Oranges, Yellows, Browns, their mixtures, and all of their respective tints and shades
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Cool colors: Greens, Blues, and Purples, and all of their mixtures and tints and shades
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You can have a “cool” or “warm” gray or brown, depending on the mixture of colors