Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 105 · 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.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) texture (b) space (c) line (d) value
2. 2.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “falling or sliding”? (a) vertical lines (b) diagonal lines (c) curved lines (d) zigzag lines
3. 3.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) washing with mild soap (b) rinsing between colours (c) leaving it in water (d) drying bristles up
4. 4.🖌️ Which brush is best for painting a wide, even sky? (a) a wide flat brush (b) a small round brush (c) a toothpick (d) a pencil
5. 5.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part farthest away (b) the top of the scene (c) the part nearest you (d) the part in between
6. 6.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) wax crayons (b) watercolour (c) poster colour (d) oil pastels
7. 7.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
8. 8.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) the brightest spot (b) its shadow on the table (c) the side away from light (d) the darker half of it
9. 9.True or false: light grey has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 6B (b) 2H (c) HB (d) 4B
11. 11.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: standing on its bristles is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) circle (b) star (c) rectangle (d) cube
14. 14.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “light first outlines”? (a) wax crayons (b) watercolour (c) pencil (d) poster colour
15. 15.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) sharpener (b) masking tape (c) palette (d) water pot
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) drying bristles up (b) letting paint dry on it (c) leaving it in water (d) standing on its bristles
17. 17.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks smaller seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
18. 18.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
19. 19.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
20. 20.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a football (b) a candle (c) a sugar cube (d) an ice-cream cone
21. 21.⬜⬛ Does white have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
22. 22.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
23. 23.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) form (b) value (c) line (d) easel
24. 24.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
25. 25.True or false: the edge of a calm sea is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) how a surface feels (c) a flat 2D area (d) what a rainbow shows
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) sphere (c) pyramid (d) triangle
28. 28.True or false: a lightning bolt looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: a square is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: “soft, light washes” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) border (b) highlight (c) vanishing point (d) foreground
33. 33.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a brick (b) a marble (c) a traffic cone (d) a dice
34. 34.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the highlight. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is the element called value? (a) the area around objects (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) how light or dark it is
36. 36.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called colour. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: “soft, creamy sticks” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a snail shell (b) stitches on cloth (c) a cut-here line (d) the teeth of a saw
39. 39.📏 What kind of line does a tightly pulled rope look like? (a) wavy line (b) zigzag line (c) dotted or broken line (d) straight line
40. 40.🧱 Which element of art is “looks furry or scaly”? (a) texture (b) form (c) space (d) colour

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