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Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 138 · 40 questions
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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. 1.True or false: white has a light value. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) watercolour (b) oil pastels (c) pencil (d) wax crayons
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) star (b) oval (c) circle (d) cube
  4. 4.True or false: “a closed flat outline” is the element called value. (a) True (b) False
  5. 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. 6.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
  7. 7.⬜⬛ Does white have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
  8. 8.True or false: “how a surface feels” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
  10. 10.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
  11. 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. 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. 13.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) HB (b) 2B
  14. 14.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) stippling (b) cross-hatching (c) hatching (d) blending
  16. 16.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) colour (c) glue (d) space
  17. 17.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) square (b) star (c) cube (d) rectangle
  18. 18.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) cross-hatching (b) blending (c) hatching (d) stippling
  19. 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. 20.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
  21. 21.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🍃 Is a cloud a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
  23. 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. 24.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a globe (b) a candle (c) a matchbox (d) a sugar cube
  25. 25.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) colour (b) line (c) form (d) shape
  26. 26.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 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. 28.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “calm and resting”? (a) vertical lines (b) curved lines (c) horizontal lines (d) diagonal lines
  29. 29.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) triangle (b) pyramid (c) sphere (d) cube
  30. 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. 31.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the middle ground. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: “hard, waxy sticks” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
  33. 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. 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. 35.🍃 Is a square a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
  36. 36.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) elbows (b) feet (c) eyes (d) knees
  37. 37.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) water pot (b) sharpener (c) palette (d) masking tape
  38. 38.What do we use a flat brush for? (a) holding paper flat (b) rinsing brushes (c) mixing colours (d) wide, straight strokes
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) oval (b) pyramid (c) cube (d) cone
  40. 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

  1. True
  2. watercolour
  3. cube
  4. False
  5. a falling tree
  6. 7
  7. light value
  8. True
  9. horizontal
  10. foreground
  11. rinsing between colours
  12. smudging with a finger
  13. 2B
  14. False
  15. cross-hatching
  16. glue
  17. cube
  18. hatching
  19. washing with mild soap
  20. 4
  21. False
  22. organic shape
  23. a ruler’s edge
  24. a sugar cube
  25. shape
  26. True
  27. straight line
  28. horizontal lines
  29. triangle
  30. the part farthest away
  31. False
  32. True
  33. a spiral
  34. where the lines cross
  35. geometric shape
  36. eyes
  37. palette
  38. wide, straight strokes
  39. oval
  40. letting paint dry on it

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