Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 142 · 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.✏️ Which side of a ball facing a lamp is the lightest? (a) the side facing the lamp (b) the side away from it (c) the bottom
2. 2.Which of these is the element called form? (a) can be seen all round (b) a closed flat outline (c) how light or dark it is (d) how a surface feels
3. 3.True or false: a triangle is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called colour. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: we use an easel for holding a board upright. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: an object that overlaps other things seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) the darker half of it (b) the brightest spot (c) its shadow on the table (d) the side away from light
9. 9.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called stippling. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a shape (b) a form (c) a sculpture (d) a cube
11. 11.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
12. 12.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) B (b) 2B (c) 4B (d) 2H
13. 13.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
14. 14.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) line (b) texture (c) shape (d) value
15. 15.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
16. 16.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
17. 17.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: “a long, thin mark” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
20. 20.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) pencil (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) wax crayons
22. 22.📏 Draw a falling tree with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
23. 23.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) gaps between things (b) a hue, like red or blue (c) the area around objects (d) looks furry or scaly
24. 24.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
25. 25.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, creamy sticks”? (a) oil pastels (b) watercolour (c) pencil (d) wax crayons
26. 26.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of poster colour. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) vanishing point (b) foreground (c) highlight (d) border
28. 28.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “do not smudge easily”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) oil pastels (d) watercolour
29. 29.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
30. 30.True or false: scrubbing hard on paper is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) looks smaller (b) shows less detail (c) looks bigger (d) is partly hidden
32. 32.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a dice (b) a marble (c) a drinking straw (d) a candle
33. 33.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) diagonal lines (b) horizontal lines (c) curved lines (d) vertical lines
34. 34.True or false: pencil grade 6B makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a wavy line. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
37. 37.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) big to small (b) white to black (c) red to blue (d) near to far
38. 38.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) shape (b) space (c) texture (d) colour
39. 39.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) form (b) shape (c) value (d) texture
40. 40.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) value (b) colour (c) line (d) space

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