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.⬜⬛ Does cream have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 2.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part in between (b) the part farthest away (c) far hills and the sky (d) the bottom of the page
- 3.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 4.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a straight line (b) a spiral (c) a dotted line (d) a zigzag
- 5.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a falling tree (b) a sleeping person (c) a playground slide (d) a person standing tall
- 6.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 7.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) shape (b) form (c) line (d) space
- 8.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, creamy sticks”? (a) wax crayons (b) pencil (c) oil pastels (d) watercolour
- 9.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
- 10.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) B (b) 2H (c) 4H (d) H
- 11.True or false: a cylinder is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 12.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) pyramid (b) square (c) sphere (d) cylinder
- 13.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) form (c) easel (d) line
- 14.True or false: “soft, creamy sticks” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 15.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
- 16.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) see-through colour (b) thick, opaque paint (c) light first outlines (d) soft, creamy sticks
- 17.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) bristles down (b) with paint on it (c) in the water pot (d) bristles up or flat
- 18.True or false: a tall lamp post is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 19.✏️ Which pencil is harder: 4H or 2H? (a) 4H (b) 2H
- 20.📐 Is a pyramid a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 21.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
- 22.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 23.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 24.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 25.🧱 Which element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) line (b) colour (c) texture (d) form
- 26.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 27.True or false: “do not smudge easily” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
- 28.True or false: a falling tree is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
- 29.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a cube (b) a shape (c) a form (d) a sculpture
- 30.True or false: we use a sharpener for giving a pencil a point. (a) True (b) False
- 31.True or false: “how light or dark it is” is the element called space. (a) True (b) False
- 32.What do we use masking tape for? (a) holding a board upright (b) holding paper flat (c) mixing colours (d) fine lines and details
- 33.What do we use a sponge for? (a) dabbing soft textures (b) mixing colours (c) rinsing brushes (d) holding paper flat
- 34.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a football (b) a globe (c) a traffic cone (d) a shoe box
- 35.📏 What kind of line does a tightly pulled rope look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) spiral line (c) wavy line (d) straight line
- 36.True or false: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
- 37.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🍃 Is a flower petal a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 39.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) triangle (b) pyramid (c) circle (d) square
- 40.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) stippling
Answer key
- light value
- the bottom of the page
- horizontal
- a spiral
- a person standing tall
- 2
- space
- oil pastels
- False
- B
- True
- square
- easel
- False
- 4
- soft, creamy sticks
- bristles up or flat
- False
- 4H
- a 3D form
- False
- foreground
- near the viewer
- 9
- form
- bad for the brush
- False
- False
- a shape
- True
- False
- holding paper flat
- dabbing soft textures
- a shoe box
- straight line
- False
- True
- organic shape
- pyramid
- hatching
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