Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 21 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) light first outlines (b) mixed with lots of water (c) hard, waxy sticks (d) bright, flat colour
2. 2.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “grey lines for sketching”? (a) oil pastels (b) wax crayons (c) watercolour (d) pencil
3. 3.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) thick, opaque paint (c) soft, creamy sticks (d) soft, light washes
4. 4.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
5. 5.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
6. 6.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) value (b) line (c) texture (d) space
7. 7.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 4H (b) 6B (c) 2H (d) HB
8. 8.True or false: a star is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) oil pastels (b) watercolour (c) wax crayons (d) poster colour
10. 10.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2H or 2B? (a) 2B (b) 2H
11. 11.🔭 In a picture, an object that overlaps other things seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
12. 12.🧊 Which 3D form is a globe shaped like? (a) sphere (b) cube (c) cylinder (d) cone
13. 13.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) the dark shape it throws (b) the brightest spot (c) where light hits most (d) the side away from light
14. 14.✏️ Which side of a ball facing a lamp is the lightest? (a) the side away from it (b) the side facing the lamp (c) the bottom
15. 15.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) value (b) form (c) line (d) shape
16. 16.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) texture (b) value (c) frame (d) line
17. 17.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a sense of near and far (b) a moving dot’s path (c) a flat 2D area (d) rough, smooth or bumpy
18. 18.True or false: pencil grade B makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
20. 20.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) zigzag line (b) wavy line (c) straight line (d) spiral line
21. 21.⬜⬛ Does dark brown have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
22. 22.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.📏 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
24. 24.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 farthest away
25. 25.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) easel (b) form (c) line (d) value
26. 26.📏 What kind of line does a jalebi look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) zigzag line (c) spiral line (d) wavy line
27. 27.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
28. 28.True or false: “has height, width, depth” is the element called form. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) square (b) triangle (c) cone (d) rectangle
30. 30.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) oil pastels (b) poster colour (c) wax crayons (d) pencil
31. 31.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
32. 32.True or false: a cuboid is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) far hills and the sky (b) the part nearest you (c) the bottom of the page (d) things that look biggest
34. 34.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
35. 35.📏 Draw a falling tree with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
36. 36.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) looks furry or scaly (b) gaps between things (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) rough, smooth or bumpy
37. 37.True or false: we use an easel for holding paper flat. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: shading with lots of tiny dots is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) cast shadow (b) highlight (c) shadow side
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) leaving it in water (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) letting paint dry on it (d) rinsing between colours

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