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 NOT an element of art? (a) glue (b) colour (c) space (d) shape
- 2.🖌️ Is drying bristles up good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 3.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) blending (d) cross-hatching
- 4.True or false: a cone is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) circle (b) rectangle (c) oval (d) cuboid
- 6.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) shape (b) texture (c) line (d) space
- 7.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 8.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a flat 2D area (b) looks furry or scaly (c) how light or dark it is (d) what a rainbow shows
- 9.True or false: a flower petal is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🧰 Which art tool do we use for dabbing soft textures? (a) water pot (b) masking tape (c) sponge (d) flat brush
- 11.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a standing tree trunk (b) a person standing tall (c) a falling tree (d) the edge of a calm sea
- 12.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) cone (b) cube (c) sphere (d) square
- 13.True or false: a falling tree is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) texture (b) colour (c) space (d) line
- 15.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) border (b) vanishing point (c) highlight (d) foreground
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) star (b) sphere (c) cuboid (d) cone
- 17.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) sphere (b) circle (c) cone (d) cube
- 19.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) poster colour (b) watercolour (c) wax crayons (d) oil pastels
- 20.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) oil pastels (b) pencil (c) wax crayons (d) poster colour
- 21.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) drying bristles up (b) washing with mild soap (c) rinsing between colours (d) scrubbing hard on paper
- 22.Which of these is called hatching? (a) criss-cross lines (b) dots packed close (c) smudging with a finger (d) many parallel lines
- 23.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) frame (b) texture (c) line (d) value
- 24.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 6B (b) 4H (c) H (d) 2H
- 25.🍃 Is a flower petal a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 26.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) washing with mild soap (b) drying bristles up (c) reshaping the tip (d) leaving it in water
- 27.✏️ With one pencil, how do you make your shading darker? (a) use an eraser (b) press harder (c) press lighter (d) add water
- 28.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
- 29.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding a board upright? (a) palette (b) easel (c) water pot (d) masking tape
- 30.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 31.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 32.Which of these is the element called line? (a) the area around objects (b) how a surface feels (c) a long, thin mark (d) a sense of near and far
- 33.🧰 Which art tool do we use for giving a pencil a point? (a) easel (b) sponge (c) masking tape (d) sharpener
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) standing on its bristles (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) leaving it in water (d) drying bristles up
- 35.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
- 36.True or false: “soft, creamy sticks” is a feature of a pencil. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) line (b) form (c) shape (d) texture
- 38.True or false: “bright, flat colour” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) round brush (b) masking tape (c) flat brush (d) palette
- 40.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
Answer key
- glue
- good brush care
- cross-hatching
- True
- cuboid
- line
- False
- what a rainbow shows
- True
- sponge
- the edge of a calm sea
- sphere
- True
- space
- vanishing point
- star
- False
- cube
- watercolour
- poster colour
- scrubbing hard on paper
- many parallel lines
- frame
- 6B
- organic shape
- leaving it in water
- press harder
- True
- easel
- soft, dark marks
- hard, light marks
- a long, thin mark
- sharpener
- drying bristles up
- diagonal
- False
- texture
- False
- masking tape
- 7
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