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.Which of these is the element called value? (a) only length and width (b) a sense of near and far (c) how light or dark it is (d) the area around objects
- 2.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 3.🖌️ Which brush is best for painting a wide, even sky? (a) a small round brush (b) a pencil (c) a wide flat brush (d) a toothpick
- 4.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) the teeth of a saw (b) stitches on cloth (c) a lightning bolt (d) a snail shell
- 5.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 6.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a zigzag line (b) a dotted line (c) a straight line (d) a wavy line
- 7.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) space (b) shape (c) glue (d) colour
- 8.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) square (b) cube (c) cone (d) sphere
- 9.True or false: pencil grade 2B makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) texture (b) space (c) form (d) shape
- 11.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a sponge (b) a wide flat brush (c) a small round brush (d) a big roller
- 12.Which of these is the element called line? (a) how light or dark it is (b) the area around objects (c) a moving dot’s path (d) what a rainbow shows
- 13.True or false: “soft, light washes” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
- 14.True or false: black has a light value. (a) False (b) True
- 15.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) the part nearest you (b) things that look biggest (c) the bottom of the page (d) the part in between
- 16.True or false: “gaps between things” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 17.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) the dark shape it throws (b) the brightest spot (c) where light hits most (d) the side away from light
- 18.True or false: “what a rainbow shows” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
- 19.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) pencil (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) charcoal
- 20.True or false: a snail shell looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 21.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) horizontal lines (b) vertical lines (c) diagonal lines (d) zigzag lines
- 22.🧱 Which element of art is “what a rainbow shows”? (a) colour (b) texture (c) line (d) space
- 23.True or false: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
- 24.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a long, thin mark (b) how a surface feels (c) a flat 2D area (d) from white to black
- 25.📏 What kind of line does a laser beam look like? (a) straight line (b) wavy line (c) zigzag line (d) dotted or broken line
- 26.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
- 27.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) stippling (b) cross-hatching (c) blending (d) hatching
- 28.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a globe (b) a drinking straw (c) a football (d) an ice-cream cone
- 29.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
- 30.💡 The light comes from the LEFT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) inside the object (b) on the left side (c) above the object (d) on the right side
- 31.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) wax crayons (b) watercolour (c) poster colour (d) oil pastels
- 32.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called stippling. (a) True (b) False
- 33.True or false: a rectangle is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 34.True or false: pencil grade HB makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) form (b) line (c) easel (d) value
- 36.True or false: an object that is partly hidden seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🧊 Which 3D form is a globe shaped like? (a) sphere (b) cone (c) cuboid (d) cylinder
- 38.True or false: a cloud is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 39.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) star (b) cone (c) oval (d) circle
- 40.True or false: a lightning bolt looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- how light or dark it is
- 2
- a wide flat brush
- a snail shell
- foreground
- a wavy line
- glue
- sphere
- True
- texture
- a small round brush
- a moving dot’s path
- True
- False
- the part in between
- True
- the side away from light
- True
- poster colour
- True
- vertical lines
- colour
- False
- a long, thin mark
- straight line
- hard, light marks
- hatching
- an ice-cream cone
- False
- on the right side
- watercolour
- True
- False
- False
- easel
- True
- sphere
- False
- cone
- False
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