Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet
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.
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- 1.🧊 Which 3D form is a traffic cone shaped like? (a) cube (b) cylinder (c) cuboid (d) cone
- 2.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “proud and steady”? (a) curved lines (b) vertical lines (c) diagonal lines (d) horizontal lines
- 3.True or false: we use a sharpener for holding paper flat. (a) False (b) True
- 4.Which of these is called stippling? (a) lines all one way (b) lines crossing over (c) lots of tiny dots (d) smudging with a finger
- 5.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a shoe box (b) a sugar cube (c) a football (d) an ice-cream cone
- 6.✏️ Which side of a ball facing a lamp is the lightest? (a) the bottom (b) the side away from it (c) the side facing the lamp
- 7.True or false: an object that sits near the horizon seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 8.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) bright, flat colour (b) mixed with lots of water (c) hard, waxy sticks (d) soft, creamy sticks
- 9.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a sleeping person (b) a playground slide (c) a tall lamp post (d) a falling tree
- 10.True or false: we use an easel for holding a board upright. (a) False (b) True
- 11.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) False (b) True
- 12.What do we use an easel for? (a) holding a board upright (b) wide, straight strokes (c) mixing colours (d) giving a pencil a point
- 13.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) spiral line (b) wavy line (c) dotted or broken line (d) zigzag line
- 14.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a big roller (b) a wide flat brush (c) a sponge (d) a small round brush
- 15.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
- 16.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) charcoal (b) poster colour (c) pencil (d) watercolour
- 17.📏 What kind of line does a tightly pulled rope look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) zigzag line (c) straight line (d) spiral line
- 18.What do we use a sponge for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) giving a pencil a point (c) holding a board upright (d) dabbing soft textures
- 19.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) B (c) 4B (d) 4H
- 20.True or false: a jalebi looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) easel (b) form (c) line (d) value
- 22.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2H or 2B? (a) 2B (b) 2H
- 23.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 24.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “grey lines for sketching”? (a) pencil (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) wax crayons
- 25.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) line (b) shape (c) texture (d) value
- 26.True or false: an object that looks bigger seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🍃 Is a flower petal a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 28.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) colour (b) texture (c) space (d) shape
- 29.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) feet (b) elbows (c) eyes (d) knees
- 30.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) a flag in the wind (c) a ruler’s edge (d) ocean waves
- 31.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) straight line (b) zigzag line (c) spiral line (d) dotted or broken line
- 32.📏 What kind of line does a laser beam look like? (a) spiral line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) wavy line
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) drying bristles up (c) reshaping the tip (d) letting paint dry on it
- 34.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
- 35.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) do not smudge easily (b) grey lines for sketching (c) thick, opaque paint (d) see-through colour
- 36.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cylinder (b) cone (c) cube (d) rectangle
- 37.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) only length and width (b) from white to black (c) the area around objects (d) how a surface feels
- 38.🧊 How many flat faces does a cube have?
- 39.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) star (b) oval (c) pyramid (d) triangle
- 40.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) mixing colours (b) giving a pencil a point (c) fine lines and details (d) dabbing soft textures
Answer key
- cone
- vertical lines
- False
- lots of tiny dots
- an ice-cream cone
- the side facing the lamp
- False
- bright, flat colour
- a sleeping person
- True
- False
- holding a board upright
- wavy line
- a small round brush
- 4
- poster colour
- straight line
- dabbing soft textures
- 4H
- True
- easel
- 2B
- hard, light marks
- pencil
- value
- False
- organic shape
- space
- eyes
- a row of pointy peaks
- dotted or broken line
- straight line
- letting paint dry on it
- background
- thick, opaque paint
- rectangle
- how a surface feels
- 6
- pyramid
- giving a pencil a point
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