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 art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) flat brush (b) sponge (c) round brush (d) palette
- 2.🧱 Which element of art is “looks furry or scaly”? (a) line (b) texture (c) colour (d) value
- 3.Which of these is the element called form? (a) can be seen all round (b) how a surface feels (c) how light or dark it is (d) a hue, like red or blue
- 4.True or false: shading with smudging with a finger is called blending. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) diagonal lines (b) horizontal lines (c) curved lines (d) vertical lines
- 6.⚽ How many flat faces does a sphere have?
- 7.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 8.True or false: navy blue has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🍃 Is a paint splash a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 10.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
- 11.Which of these is the element called line? (a) looks furry or scaly (b) a long, thin mark (c) gaps between things (d) rough, smooth or bumpy
- 12.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the side away from light called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
- 13.📏 What kind of line does stitches on cloth look like? (a) wavy line (b) zigzag line (c) dotted or broken line (d) spiral line
- 14.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) red to blue (b) white to black (c) big to small (d) near to far
- 15.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a straight line (b) a dotted line (c) a zigzag line (d) a wavy line
- 16.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) form (b) space (c) shape (d) colour
- 17.True or false: a star is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) younger (b) taller (c) farther away (d) closer to you
- 19.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a marble (b) a drinking straw (c) a candle (d) a brick
- 20.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) shape (b) line (c) form (d) texture
- 21.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) texture (b) colour (c) space (d) shape
- 22.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the highlight. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sphere (b) cuboid (c) pyramid (d) square
- 24.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cube (b) cone (c) cuboid (d) star
- 25.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks bigger seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) drying bristles up (b) rinsing between colours (c) reshaping the tip (d) scrubbing hard on paper
- 27.✏️ Which shading method uses smooth, soft tones? (a) stippling (b) cross-hatching (c) blending (d) hatching
- 28.Which of these is called blending? (a) smudging with a finger (b) lots of tiny dots (c) many parallel lines (d) dots packed close
- 29.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 30.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a straight line (b) a dotted line (c) a zigzag (d) a spiral
- 31.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “proud and steady”? (a) horizontal lines (b) curved lines (c) diagonal lines (d) vertical lines
- 32.True or false: a lightning bolt looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🧰 Which art tool do we use for fine lines and details? (a) round brush (b) flat brush (c) palette (d) sponge
- 34.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 35.Which of these is the element called space? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) a solid 3D object (c) a flat 2D area (d) a sense of near and far
- 36.True or false: an object that looks bigger seems far away. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: “only length and width” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
- 38.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 39.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) form (b) shape (c) value (d) space
- 40.Which of these is called blending? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) lines all one way (c) dots packed close (d) many parallel lines
Answer key
- palette
- texture
- can be seen all round
- True
- vertical lines
- 0
- good brush care
- False
- organic shape
- foreground
- a long, thin mark
- shadow side
- dotted or broken line
- white to black
- a wavy line
- space
- False
- farther away
- a marble
- texture
- colour
- False
- square
- star
- near the viewer
- scrubbing hard on paper
- blending
- smudging with a finger
- near the viewer
- a spiral
- vertical lines
- True
- round brush
- 7
- a sense of near and far
- False
- False
- horizontal
- value
- smooth, soft tones
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