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 called hatching? (a) lines crossing over (b) dots packed close (c) smooth, soft tones (d) many parallel lines
- 2.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) straight line (b) zigzag line (c) wavy line (d) dotted or broken line
- 3.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) criss-cross lines (b) many parallel lines (c) dots packed close (d) lots of tiny dots
- 4.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 5.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a shoe box (b) a party hat (c) a football (d) a sugar cube
- 6.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) watercolour (b) oil pastels (c) wax crayons (d) poster colour
- 7.True or false: on a shaded ball, its shadow on the table is called the shadow side. (a) True (b) False
- 8.Which of these is good brush care? (a) leaving it in water (b) standing on its bristles (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) rinsing between colours
- 9.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 10.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) frame (b) value (c) line (d) texture
- 11.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a snail shell (b) a tightly pulled rope (c) ocean waves (d) a cut-here line
- 12.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
- 13.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) cross-hatching (b) hatching (c) blending (d) stippling
- 14.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) vanishing point (c) foreground (d) border
- 15.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4B (b) 6B (c) HB (d) 2H
- 16.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) round brush (b) masking tape (c) sharpener (d) palette
- 17.✏️ Which shading method uses smooth, soft tones? (a) cross-hatching (b) stippling (c) blending (d) hatching
- 18.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) drying bristles up (c) leaving it in water (d) standing on its bristles
- 20.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) spiral line (b) wavy line (c) dotted or broken line (d) zigzag line
- 21.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a falling tree (c) a sleeping person (d) a table top
- 22.Which of these is called hatching? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) lots of tiny dots (c) smudging with a finger (d) lines all one way
- 23.💡 The light shines from straight above. Where is the cast shadow? (a) above the object (b) on the ceiling (c) under the object (d) in the sky
- 24.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 25.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 26.📏 Draw the edge of a calm sea with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 27.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) red to blue (b) big to small (c) near to far (d) white to black
- 28.True or false: “can be seen all round” is the element called value. (a) False (b) True
- 29.True or false: pale yellow has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🧱 Which element of art is “what a rainbow shows”? (a) line (b) colour (c) value (d) form
- 31.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) True (b) False
- 32.True or false: a jalebi looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks bigger (b) overlaps other things (c) sits lower on the page (d) looks paler and bluer
- 34.True or false: pencil grade 6B makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 35.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a person standing tall (c) the edge of a calm sea (d) a falling tree
- 36.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 37.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 38.📏 What kind of line does a ruler’s edge look like? (a) wavy line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) spiral line
- 39.🍦 How many flat faces does a cone have?
- 40.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
Answer key
- many parallel lines
- zigzag line
- criss-cross lines
- False
- a sugar cube
- poster colour
- False
- rinsing between colours
- dark value
- frame
- a snail shell
- True
- hatching
- vanishing point
- 2H
- masking tape
- blending
- 8
- drying bristles up
- dotted or broken line
- a tall lamp post
- lines all one way
- under the object
- 7
- dark value
- horizontal
- white to black
- False
- False
- colour
- False
- True
- looks paler and bluer
- True
- a falling tree
- vertical
- horizontal
- straight line
- 1
- watercolour
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