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.True or false: a person standing tall is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 2.Which of these is good brush care? (a) drying bristles up (b) letting paint dry on it (c) leaving it in water (d) standing on its bristles
- 3.What do we use an easel for? (a) holding paper flat (b) holding a board upright (c) dabbing soft textures (d) giving a pencil a point
- 4.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) texture (d) space
- 5.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a person standing tall (b) a table top (c) a falling tree (d) the edge of a calm sea
- 6.True or false: ocean waves looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 7.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) a tightly pulled rope (c) dashes on a road (d) a snail shell
- 8.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 9.True or false: “can be seen all round” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
- 10.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a person standing tall (b) a sleeping person (c) a standing tree trunk (d) a tall lamp post
- 11.💡 On a shaded ball, what is where light hits most called? (a) cast shadow (b) highlight (c) shadow side
- 12.🧱 Which element of art is “a solid 3D object”? (a) space (b) shape (c) form (d) value
- 13.📏 What kind of line does dashes on a road look like? (a) zigzag line (b) spiral line (c) dotted or broken line (d) straight line
- 14.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape (c) a flat outline
- 15.True or false: pencil grade H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) sponge (b) masking tape (c) palette (d) easel
- 17.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) sand (b) glue (c) water and mild soap (d) hot oil
- 18.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) watercolour (b) poster colour (c) charcoal (d) pencil
- 19.True or false: on a shaded ball, its shadow on the table is called the cast shadow. (a) False (b) True
- 20.True or false: we use a water pot for rinsing brushes. (a) False (b) True
- 21.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter H stand for? (a) hot (b) hard (c) high (d) heavy
- 22.📏 What kind of line does the teeth of a saw look like? (a) zigzag line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) straight line
- 23.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) foreground (b) border (c) highlight (d) vanishing point
- 25.✏️ Which pencil makes lighter lines: HB or 2H? (a) 2H (b) HB
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) oval (b) cylinder (c) sphere (d) cube
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) leaving it in water (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) letting paint dry on it (d) drying bristles up
- 28.💡 The light comes from the LEFT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) above the object (b) on the right side (c) on the left side (d) inside the object
- 29.True or false: the edge of a calm sea is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 30.📏 What kind of line does a snail shell look like? (a) wavy line (b) spiral line (c) straight line (d) dotted or broken line
- 31.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a wriggling snake (b) stitches on cloth (c) a coiled rope (d) the teeth of a saw
- 32.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 33.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) sphere (b) square (c) cone (d) cube
- 34.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
- 35.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 36.True or false: a table top is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 37.True or false: “a closed flat outline” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
- 38.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part farthest away is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 39.📏 Draw the edge of a calm sea with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 40.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) looks bigger (b) sits near the horizon (c) sits lower on the page (d) overlaps other things
Answer key
- False
- drying bristles up
- holding a board upright
- texture
- a falling tree
- False
- a snail shell
- organic shape
- False
- a sleeping person
- highlight
- form
- dotted or broken line
- a 3D form
- True
- palette
- water and mild soap
- poster colour
- True
- True
- hard
- zigzag line
- False
- vanishing point
- 2H
- oval
- drying bristles up
- on the right side
- True
- spiral line
- a wriggling snake
- highlight
- sphere
- foreground
- horizontal
- True
- True
- False
- horizontal
- sits near the horizon
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