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 is the odd one out? (a) drying bristles up (b) letting paint dry on it (c) washing with mild soap (d) reshaping the tip
- 2.True or false: “do not smudge easily” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 3.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
- 4.Which of these is called stippling? (a) criss-cross lines (b) lines all one way (c) lines crossing over (d) lots of tiny dots
- 5.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) how a surface feels (c) a flat 2D area (d) has height, width, depth
- 6.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 7.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) soft, light washes (c) hard, waxy sticks (d) mixed with lots of water
- 8.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 9.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 10.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
- 11.📐 Is a cone a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 12.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) stitches on cloth (b) a jalebi (c) a flag in the wind (d) a tightly pulled rope
- 13.True or false: shading with criss-cross lines is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 14.💡 On a shaded ball, what is where light hits most called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 15.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 16.True or false: on a shaded ball, the brightest spot is called the highlight. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🧰 Which art tool do we use for giving a pencil a point? (a) water pot (b) round brush (c) flat brush (d) sharpener
- 18.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a long, thin mark (b) only length and width (c) can be seen all round (d) how a surface feels
- 19.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) form (b) colour (c) value (d) shape
- 20.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) bright, flat colour (c) hard, waxy sticks (d) grey lines for sketching
- 21.🧱 Which element of art is “only length and width”? (a) space (b) shape (c) texture (d) line
- 22.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 23.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) line (b) value (c) shape (d) form
- 24.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part nearest you (b) the part in between (c) the top of the scene (d) the bottom of the page
- 25.🧊 Which 3D form is a traffic cone shaped like? (a) cone (b) cube (c) cuboid (d) cylinder
- 26.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) gaps between things (b) how a surface feels (c) a sense of near and far (d) from white to black
- 27.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) drying bristles up (b) leaving it in water (c) rinsing between colours (d) washing with mild soap
- 28.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a wide flat brush (b) a sponge (c) a big roller (d) a small round brush
- 29.True or false: letting paint dry on it is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 30.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 31.True or false: scrubbing hard on paper is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 32.📏 What kind of line does the teeth of a saw look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) straight line (c) wavy line (d) zigzag line
- 33.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) square (b) circle (c) rectangle (d) cube
- 34.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) the top of the scene (b) things that look biggest (c) the part in between (d) the part nearest you
- 35.True or false: a square is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 36.True or false: “a long, thin mark” is the element called line. (a) True (b) False
- 37.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a solid 3D object (b) a sense of near and far (c) a closed flat outline (d) from white to black
- 38.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a spiral (b) a dotted line (c) a straight line (d) a zigzag
- 39.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form (c) a flat outline
- 40.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) oil pastels (b) wax crayons (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
Answer key
- letting paint dry on it
- True
- 4
- lots of tiny dots
- a hue, like red or blue
- medium marks
- soft, creamy sticks
- soft, dark marks
- dark value
- True
- a 3D form
- a tightly pulled rope
- True
- highlight
- True
- True
- sharpener
- only length and width
- shape
- grey lines for sketching
- shape
- False
- shape
- the top of the scene
- cone
- how a surface feels
- leaving it in water
- a small round brush
- False
- 2
- False
- zigzag line
- cube
- the part in between
- True
- True
- a sense of near and far
- a spiral
- a 3D form
- watercolour
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