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.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) the darker half of it (b) where light hits most (c) the dark shape it throws (d) the side away from light
- 2.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) looks paler and bluer (b) looks bigger (c) shows more detail (d) overlaps other things
- 3.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a snail shell (b) a jalebi (c) stitches on cloth (d) a flag in the wind
- 4.True or false: a sleeping person is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding a board upright? (a) palette (b) round brush (c) easel (d) water pot
- 6.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) bristles down (b) bristles up or flat (c) with paint on it (d) in the water pot
- 7.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
- 8.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 9.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 10.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) cube (b) sphere (c) circle (d) cone
- 11.True or false: a jalebi looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 12.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) space (b) line (c) shape (d) form
- 13.True or false: pencil grade H makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
- 14.True or false: a puddle is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
- 15.True or false: the edge of a calm sea is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🧰 Which art tool do we use for wide, straight strokes? (a) sharpener (b) palette (c) easel (d) flat brush
- 17.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) grey lines for sketching (c) hard, waxy sticks (d) blend with a fingertip
- 18.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) light first outlines (d) see-through colour
- 19.True or false: a cube is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
- 21.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) gaps between things (b) a hue, like red or blue (c) from white to black (d) rough, smooth or bumpy
- 22.True or false: “how light or dark it is” is the element called value. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 24.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a spiral (b) a dotted line (c) a zigzag (d) a straight line
- 25.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) oil pastels
- 26.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “proud and steady”? (a) zigzag lines (b) horizontal lines (c) curved lines (d) vertical lines
- 27.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the top of the scene (b) things that look biggest (c) the part in between (d) the part farthest away
- 28.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a solid 3D object (b) from white to black (c) only length and width (d) a long, thin mark
- 29.Which of these is called blending? (a) criss-cross lines (b) lines all one way (c) smudging with a finger (d) many parallel lines
- 30.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) drying bristles up (c) reshaping the tip (d) scrubbing hard on paper
- 32.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows less detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 33.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) poster colour (b) oil pastels (c) wax crayons (d) watercolour
- 34.🧊 Which 3D form is a football shaped like? (a) sphere (b) cuboid (c) cone (d) cube
- 35.True or false: a star is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 36.📏 What kind of line does a wriggling snake look like? (a) wavy line (b) zigzag line (c) straight line (d) dotted or broken line
- 37.True or false: a cone is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 38.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 39.🧊 How many flat faces does a cube have?
- 40.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) 6B (c) B (d) 2H
Answer key
- where light hits most
- looks paler and bluer
- a flag in the wind
- True
- easel
- bristles up or flat
- diagonal
- True
- shadow side
- cube
- True
- form
- False
- True
- False
- flat brush
- mixed with lots of water
- hard, waxy sticks
- False
- 4
- a hue, like red or blue
- True
- bad for the brush
- a spiral
- poster colour
- vertical lines
- things that look biggest
- only length and width
- smudging with a finger
- 7
- scrubbing hard on paper
- far away
- watercolour
- sphere
- True
- wavy line
- False
- vertical
- 6
- 2H
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