Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 123 · 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.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) cross-hatching (b) stippling (c) hatching (d) blending
3. 3.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
4. 4.🖌️ Is reshaping the tip good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
5. 5.True or false: a puddle is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.True or false: black has a light value. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.True or false: a falling tree is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
9. 9.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a person standing tall (b) a table top (c) a standing tree trunk (d) a leaning ladder
10. 10.True or false: “looks furry or scaly” is the element called line. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) zigzag line (b) straight line (c) dotted or broken line (d) spiral line
12. 12.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) space (b) line (c) texture (d) form
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sits near the horizon (b) looks bigger (c) overlaps other things (d) sits lower on the page
14. 14.True or false: a playground slide is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🍃 Is a paint splash a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
16. 16.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a sense of near and far (b) what a rainbow shows (c) how light or dark it is (d) rough, smooth or bumpy
17. 17.🧱 Which element of art is “what a rainbow shows”? (a) colour (b) space (c) value (d) shape
18. 18.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part farthest away is the background. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.What do we use a water pot for? (a) holding paper flat (b) dabbing soft textures (c) wide, straight strokes (d) rinsing brushes
20. 20.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) oil pastels (b) pencil (c) poster colour (d) wax crayons
21. 21.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) the area around objects (b) only length and width (c) gaps between things (d) a sense of near and far
22. 22.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks paler and bluer seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
23. 23.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) circle (b) oval (c) cone (d) triangle
25. 25.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a straight line (b) a dotted line (c) a zigzag (d) a spiral
26. 26.True or false: a tall lamp post is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.📏 Draw a tall lamp post with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
28. 28.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a snail shell (b) the teeth of a saw (c) a cut-here line (d) ocean waves
29. 29.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a sugar cube (b) a brick (c) an ice-cream cone (d) a dice
30. 30.True or false: a playground slide is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) do not smudge easily (c) soft, light washes (d) thick, opaque paint
32. 32.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) stippling
33. 33.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the shadow side. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, light washes”? (a) oil pastels (b) watercolour (c) wax crayons (d) pencil
35. 35.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
36. 36.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a wide flat brush (b) a sponge (c) a small round brush (d) a big roller
37. 37.True or false: shading with criss-cross lines is called stippling. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a jalebi (b) a ruler’s edge (c) ocean waves (d) the teeth of a saw
39. 39.True or false: an object that shows more detail seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) line (b) shape (c) colour (d) space

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