Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 151 · 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: a triangle is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) form (b) space (c) value (d) shape
3. 3.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a football (b) a sugar cube (c) a candle (d) a party hat
4. 4.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a falling tree (b) a sleeping person (c) a person standing tall (d) a playground slide
5. 5.True or false: dark grey has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) charcoal (b) poster colour (c) pencil (d) watercolour
7. 7.📏 What kind of line does dashes on a road look like? (a) straight line (b) zigzag line (c) wavy line (d) dotted or broken line
8. 8.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a leaning ladder (c) a standing tree trunk (d) a tall lamp post
9. 9.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
10. 10.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) the darker half of it (b) where light hits most (c) the side away from light (d) the dark shape it throws
11. 11.✏️ Which shading method uses smudging with a finger? (a) cross-hatching (b) hatching (c) stippling (d) blending
12. 12.Which of these is the element called value? (a) a closed flat outline (b) looks furry or scaly (c) how light or dark it is (d) how a surface feels
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) leaving it in water (b) standing on its bristles (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) rinsing between colours
14. 14.What do we use an easel for? (a) holding a board upright (b) rinsing brushes (c) mixing colours (d) fine lines and details
15. 15.True or false: black has a light value. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) triangle (b) oval (c) star (d) cube
17. 17.True or false: dashes on a road looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) many parallel lines (b) lines all one way (c) lines crossing over (d) lots of tiny dots
19. 19.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) texture (b) line (c) colour (d) shape
20. 20.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
21. 21.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a coiled rope (b) a flag in the wind (c) stitches on cloth (d) a wriggling snake
22. 22.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) ocean waves (b) a lightning bolt (c) a cut-here line (d) a ruler’s edge
23. 23.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) the part in between (b) the bottom of the page (c) the part nearest you (d) the top of the scene
24. 24.True or false: an object that looks bigger seems far away. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: a triangle is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: a leaf is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cuboid (b) circle (c) cube (d) sphere
29. 29.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) vertical lines (b) zigzag lines (c) curved lines (d) diagonal lines
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cuboid (b) star (c) rectangle (d) oval
31. 31.True or false: “a sense of near and far” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) is partly hidden (b) overlaps other things (c) looks paler and bluer (d) sits near the horizon
33. 33.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) watercolour (b) oil pastels (c) wax crayons (d) poster colour
34. 34.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) form (c) value (d) easel
35. 35.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) masking tape (b) easel (c) palette (d) water pot
36. 36.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2H or 2B? (a) 2H (b) 2B
37. 37.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the background. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
39. 39.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) white to black (b) red to blue (c) near to far (d) big to small
40. 40.True or false: a sleeping person is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False

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