Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 1 · 40 questions

Artist's tip (Find the topic): Elements: line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value. Shading: highlight faces the light, cast shadow falls away from it; near = bigger, far = smaller. Materials: watercolour see-through, poster colour opaque, B soft and dark, H hard and light.

1. 1.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) circle (c) cone (d) cuboid
2. 2.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits near the horizon seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
3. 3.🧰 Which art tool do we use for dabbing soft textures? (a) round brush (b) sponge (c) masking tape (d) palette
4. 4.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) only length and width (c) a moving dot’s path (d) looks furry or scaly
5. 5.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part in between? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
6. 6.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
7. 7.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) the teeth of a saw (b) a laser beam (c) ocean waves (d) a cut-here line
8. 8.True or false: a snail shell looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧊 Which 3D form is a brick shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) cone (c) sphere (d) cube
10. 10.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) taller (b) farther away (c) younger (d) closer to you
11. 11.Which of these is called stippling? (a) smudging with a finger (b) dots packed close (c) lines all one way (d) lines crossing over
12. 12.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) with paint on it (b) bristles up or flat (c) bristles down (d) in the water pot
13. 13.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) space (b) line (c) colour (d) form
14. 14.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
15. 15.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) zigzag lines (b) diagonal lines (c) horizontal lines (d) vertical lines
16. 16.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
17. 17.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a playground slide (b) a tall lamp post (c) the edge of a calm sea (d) a falling tree
18. 18.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) value (b) colour (c) space (d) line
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) oval (b) pyramid (c) square (d) triangle
20. 20.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) colour (b) form (c) shape (d) space
21. 21.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) feet (b) elbows (c) eyes (d) knees
23. 23.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) H (b) 2B (c) 4B (d) HB
24. 24.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) do not smudge easily (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) mixed with lots of water (d) thick, opaque paint
25. 25.Which of these is the element called line? (a) gaps between things (b) a long, thin mark (c) from white to black (d) a hue, like red or blue
26. 26.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) from white to black (c) a flat 2D area (d) a solid 3D object
27. 27.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: on a shaded ball, its shadow on the table is called the cast shadow. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.📏 Draw the edge of a calm sea with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
30. 30.📏 Draw a leaning ladder with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
31. 31.⬜⬛ Does black have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
32. 32.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “light first outlines”? (a) poster colour (b) pencil (c) oil pastels (d) watercolour
33. 33.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part nearest you (b) the part in between (c) the top of the scene (d) things that look biggest
34. 34.Which of these is good brush care? (a) leaving it in water (b) letting paint dry on it (c) rinsing between colours (d) scrubbing hard on paper
35. 35.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) washing with mild soap (b) reshaping the tip (c) rinsing between colours (d) letting paint dry on it
36. 36.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) value (b) shape (c) line (d) form
38. 38.True or false: rinsing between colours is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a wavy line (b) a dotted line (c) a straight line (d) a zigzag line
40. 40.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) looks bigger (b) shows more detail (c) sits near the horizon (d) sits lower on the page

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