A Tint is a color mixed with White
A Shade is a color mixed with Black
When teaching this concept to the kids, I taught them that it is so important to get the darks and lights correct in art. If you get the lights and darks right it doesn't matter what color you use.
On the first week we did a "find the shapes" drawing of a piece of the Mona Lisa. The next week we painted the drawing. They got to choose one color only, then that color got mixed with black, and with white for a total of 3 "colors". They had to look at their piece of the Mona Lisa and find the lights, mediums and darks. The lights they painted with their tint, their mediums with the regular color, and their darks with their shades. Then we put all the pieces together. This was one of our most difficult assignments, lots of grunts and groans, but they turned out fantastic! I like how it went from a Da Vinci, to a Picasso look.
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