identify a hue by placing your value viewer over your photo reference, then asking yourself these four questions:

• what basic color do you see? red?

• where on the color wheel is it? is it a red on the warm side? (orangish) or the cool side (purplish)

• what is the intensity of the red? is it bright (high intensity - no gray) or dull (low intensity - lots of gray)?

• what is the value? is it a light red (when compared to the white of the value viewer) or a dark red?

with the hue identified, begin with the lightest value color you see, applying lightly.

add layers by value, starting with the lightest and gradually increasing to darker values.