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 element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) form (b) colour (c) line (d) shape
- 2.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 3.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) the brightest spot (b) its shadow on the table (c) the side away from light (d) the darker half of it
- 4.True or false: a wriggling snake looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
- 5.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 4H (b) HB (c) 6B (d) B
- 6.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
- 7.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a falling tree (c) the edge of a calm sea (d) a table top
- 8.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 9.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the bottom of the page (b) the part farthest away (c) the part in between (d) the top of the scene
- 10.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called cross-hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 11.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called shape. (a) True (b) False
- 12.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) from white to black (b) the area around objects (c) what a rainbow shows (d) only length and width
- 13.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, creamy sticks”? (a) wax crayons (b) pencil (c) poster colour (d) oil pastels
- 14.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 15.Which of these is shaped like a cylinder? (a) a matchbox (b) a dice (c) a candle (d) a marble
- 16.True or false: pencil grade H makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
- 17.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) giving a pencil a point (c) holding paper flat (d) fine lines and details
- 18.True or false: pencil grade 2B makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 19.True or false: shading with smudging with a finger is called blending. (a) True (b) False
- 20.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) watercolour (b) wax crayons (c) poster colour (d) oil pastels
- 21.True or false: we use a water pot for rinsing brushes. (a) False (b) True
- 22.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) grey lines for sketching (c) soft, creamy sticks (d) see-through colour
- 23.✏️ Which shading method uses smooth, soft tones? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) hatching
- 24.Which of these is the element called value? (a) a closed flat outline (b) a flat 2D area (c) from white to black (d) a sense of near and far
- 25.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) line (b) value (c) texture (d) shape
- 26.True or false: “a sense of near and far” is the element called form. (a) True (b) False
- 27.⬜⬛ Does white have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) star (b) triangle (c) square (d) cube
- 29.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a football (b) a marble (c) a globe (d) a traffic cone
- 30.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a leaning ladder (c) a sleeping person (d) a tall lamp post
- 31.⬜⬛ Does black have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 32.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part in between is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
- 33.True or false: “hard, waxy sticks” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 34.True or false: shading with lots of tiny dots is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: on a shaded ball, the darker half of it is called the shadow side. (a) True (b) False
- 36.True or false: an object that overlaps other things seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: a triangle is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) diagonal lines (b) curved lines (c) zigzag lines (d) vertical lines
- 39.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 40.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
Answer key
- form
- near the viewer
- the brightest spot
- False
- HB
- foreground
- a falling tree
- soft, dark marks
- the bottom of the page
- True
- False
- what a rainbow shows
- oil pastels
- 7
- a candle
- False
- giving a pencil a point
- True
- True
- watercolour
- True
- soft, creamy sticks
- blending
- from white to black
- value
- False
- light value
- cube
- a traffic cone
- a leaning ladder
- dark value
- True
- True
- False
- True
- True
- False
- zigzag lines
- cast shadow
- hard, light marks
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