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 navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 2.True or false: “has height, width, depth” is the element called form. (a) True (b) False
- 3.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 6B (b) H (c) B (d) 4B
- 4.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) blending (d) cross-hatching
- 5.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) washing with mild soap (c) reshaping the tip (d) drying bristles up
- 6.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 7.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) easel (b) palette (c) water pot (d) flat brush
- 8.📐 Is a cone a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 9.True or false: scrubbing hard on paper is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 10.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) is partly hidden (b) shows more detail (c) looks paler and bluer (d) looks smaller
- 11.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows less detail seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 12.🖌️ Is washing with mild soap good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 13.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a wavy line (b) a zigzag line (c) a dotted line (d) a straight line
- 14.True or false: a square is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 15.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) bristles down (b) in the water pot (c) with paint on it (d) bristles up or flat
- 16.✏️ Which shading method uses dots packed close? (a) cross-hatching (b) stippling (c) blending (d) hatching
- 17.📐 Is a sphere a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 18.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) taller (b) younger (c) farther away (d) closer to you
- 19.True or false: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 20.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 21.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) watercolour (b) poster colour (c) oil pastels (d) wax crayons
- 22.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
- 23.True or false: drying bristles up is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 24.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a flat 2D area (b) only length and width (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) a long, thin mark
- 25.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits near the horizon seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 26.🧊 Which 3D form is a brick shaped like? (a) cone (b) cylinder (c) sphere (d) cuboid
- 27.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) looks smaller (b) looks bigger (c) sits lower on the page (d) shows more detail
- 28.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 29.✏️ Which pencil makes lighter lines: HB or 2H? (a) 2H (b) HB
- 30.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) things that look biggest (b) the bottom of the page (c) the top of the scene (d) the part in between
- 31.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) space (b) value (c) line (d) texture
- 32.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) do not smudge easily (c) light first outlines (d) soft, creamy sticks
- 33.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) water and mild soap (b) glue (c) hot oil (d) sand
- 34.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 35.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called form. (a) False (b) True
- 36.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2H or 2B? (a) 2B (b) 2H
- 37.True or false: standing on its bristles is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 38.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a wavy line. (a) False (b) True
- 39.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a football (b) a marble (c) a party hat (d) a dice
- 40.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) straight line (b) wavy line (c) dotted or broken line (d) zigzag line
Answer key
- dark value
- True
- H
- cross-hatching
- scrubbing hard on paper
- 7
- palette
- a 3D form
- True
- shows more detail
- far away
- good brush care
- a wavy line
- True
- bristles up or flat
- stippling
- a 3D form
- farther away
- False
- False
- watercolour
- foreground
- True
- a long, thin mark
- far away
- cuboid
- looks smaller
- 12
- 2H
- the top of the scene
- space
- light first outlines
- water and mild soap
- diagonal
- True
- 2B
- False
- False
- a party hat
- wavy line
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