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: white has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) watercolour (b) oil pastels (c) pencil (d) wax crayons
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) star (b) oval (c) circle (d) cube
- 4.True or false: “a closed flat outline” is the element called value. (a) True (b) False
- 5.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a tall lamp post (c) a falling tree (d) a person standing tall
- 6.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 7.⬜⬛ Does white have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 8.True or false: “how a surface feels” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
- 9.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 10.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
- 11.Which of these is good brush care? (a) leaving it in water (b) rinsing between colours (c) standing on its bristles (d) letting paint dry on it
- 12.Which of these is called blending? (a) dots packed close (b) smudging with a finger (c) lots of tiny dots (d) lines all one way
- 13.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) HB (b) 2B
- 14.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 15.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) stippling (b) cross-hatching (c) hatching (d) blending
- 16.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) colour (c) glue (d) space
- 17.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) square (b) star (c) cube (d) rectangle
- 18.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) cross-hatching (b) blending (c) hatching (d) stippling
- 19.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) letting paint dry on it (c) leaving it in water (d) washing with mild soap
- 20.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
- 21.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🍃 Is a cloud a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 23.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a jalebi (b) a ruler’s edge (c) a cut-here line (d) ocean waves
- 24.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a globe (b) a candle (c) a matchbox (d) a sugar cube
- 25.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) colour (b) line (c) form (d) shape
- 26.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
- 27.📏 What kind of line does a laser beam look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) wavy line (c) zigzag line (d) straight line
- 28.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “calm and resting”? (a) vertical lines (b) curved lines (c) horizontal lines (d) diagonal lines
- 29.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) triangle (b) pyramid (c) sphere (d) cube
- 30.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part nearest you (b) the bottom of the page (c) things that look biggest (d) the part farthest away
- 31.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the middle ground. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: “hard, waxy sticks” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 33.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a dotted line (b) a spiral (c) a straight line (d) a zigzag
- 34.🖼️ In the rule of thirds, where should the main subject go? (a) off the page (b) at the very edge (c) where the lines cross (d) in a corner
- 35.🍃 Is a square a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 36.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) elbows (b) feet (c) eyes (d) knees
- 37.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) water pot (b) sharpener (c) palette (d) masking tape
- 38.What do we use a flat brush for? (a) holding paper flat (b) rinsing brushes (c) mixing colours (d) wide, straight strokes
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) oval (b) pyramid (c) cube (d) cone
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) drying bristles up (c) washing with mild soap (d) letting paint dry on it
Answer key
- True
- watercolour
- cube
- False
- a falling tree
- 7
- light value
- True
- horizontal
- foreground
- rinsing between colours
- smudging with a finger
- 2B
- False
- cross-hatching
- glue
- cube
- hatching
- washing with mild soap
- 4
- False
- organic shape
- a ruler’s edge
- a sugar cube
- shape
- True
- straight line
- horizontal lines
- triangle
- the part farthest away
- False
- True
- a spiral
- where the lines cross
- geometric shape
- eyes
- palette
- wide, straight strokes
- oval
- letting paint dry on it
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