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Complementary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 5: Complementary colours · Set 681 · 40 questions
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Artist's tip (Look straight across): Pairs: red–green, blue–orange, yellow–purple (each pair = one primary + one secondary). Tertiary pairs: red-orange–blue-green, yellow-orange–blue-purple, yellow-green–red-purple. Side by side they look brighter; mixed as paint they look dull and brownish.

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  1. 1.In red–green, blue–orange and yellow–purple, each pair has one primary and one… (a) neutral colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.Which of these is a complementary pair? (a) red and orange (b) yellow and orange (c) red and green (d) blue and green
  3. 3.True or false: yellow-orange is the complementary colour of blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: red and orange — this is a complementary pair. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎯 What is the complementary colour of red-orange? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) red
  6. 6.True or false: yellow-orange is the complementary colour of red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: blue-green is the complementary colour of red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: red-purple is the complementary colour of green. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: red is the complementary colour of blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: yellow is the complementary colour of purple. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: orange is the complementary colour of blue. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎯 What is the complementary colour of yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎯 What is the complementary colour of red? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) blue
  14. 14.True or false: blue and orange — this is a complementary pair. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎯 Are yellow and purple a complementary pair? (a) not complementary (b) complementary pair
  16. 16.🎯 Are green and red a complementary pair? (a) complementary pair (b) not complementary
  17. 17.🎯 What is the complementary colour of purple? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  18. 18.True or false: red is the complementary colour of red. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Placed side by side, complementary colours make each other look… (a) paler (b) brighter (c) invisible (d) duller
  20. 20.🎯 What is the complementary colour of blue-purple? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  21. 21.True or false: red-purple is the complementary colour of yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: blue and orange — this is not a complementary pair. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-orange is the complementary colour of orange. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is not a complementary pair? (a) blue and orange (b) yellow and purple (c) purple and yellow (d) yellow and orange
  25. 25.🎯 What is the complementary colour of blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  26. 26.True or false: green and yellow — this is not a complementary pair. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: green and red — this is a complementary pair. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎯 What is the complementary colour of red-purple? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  29. 29.True or false: purple is the complementary colour of orange. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red and purple (b) blue and orange (c) yellow and purple (d) red and green
  31. 31.True or false: green is the complementary colour of yellow. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎯 Are blue and purple a complementary pair? (a) not complementary (b) complementary pair
  33. 33.True or false: yellow and purple — this is not a complementary pair. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: red-orange is the complementary colour of blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: blue-purple is the complementary colour of orange. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎯 Are purple and yellow a complementary pair? (a) not complementary (b) complementary pair
  37. 37.True or false: purple is the complementary colour of yellow. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎯 Are blue and orange a complementary pair? (a) complementary pair (b) not complementary
  39. 39.To make an orange fish stand out, which background colour works best? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) blue
  40. 40.Which of these is a complementary pair? (a) yellow and purple (b) blue and purple (c) red and purple (d) red and orange

Answer key

  1. secondary colour
  2. red and green
  3. True
  4. False
  5. blue-green
  6. False
  7. True
  8. False
  9. False
  10. True
  11. True
  12. blue-purple
  13. green
  14. True
  15. complementary pair
  16. complementary pair
  17. yellow
  18. False
  19. brighter
  20. yellow-orange
  21. True
  22. False
  23. False
  24. yellow and orange
  25. orange
  26. True
  27. True
  28. yellow-green
  29. False
  30. red and purple
  31. False
  32. not complementary
  33. False
  34. True
  35. False
  36. complementary pair
  37. True
  38. complementary pair
  39. blue
  40. yellow and purple

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