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.🖌️ Is reshaping the tip good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 2.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) shadow side (b) highlight (c) cast shadow
- 3.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the background. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 5.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “calm and resting”? (a) diagonal lines (b) vertical lines (c) zigzag lines (d) horizontal lines
- 6.📐 Is a circle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 7.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part farthest away is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
- 8.🍦 How many flat faces does a cone have?
- 9.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding a board upright? (a) water pot (b) masking tape (c) sponge (d) easel
- 10.⬜⬛ Does black have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 11.📐 Is a cuboid a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 12.🧰 Which art tool do we use for fine lines and details? (a) sponge (b) flat brush (c) easel (d) round brush
- 13.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) colour (b) form (c) texture (d) line
- 14.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) texture (d) frame
- 15.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 16.True or false: a cylinder is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 17.True or false: pencil grade H makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 18.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the bottom of the page (b) far hills and the sky (c) the part in between (d) the part farthest away
- 19.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) B (b) H (c) HB (d) 6B
- 20.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “still and peaceful”? (a) horizontal lines (b) vertical lines (c) curved lines (d) diagonal lines
- 21.True or false: standing on its bristles is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 23.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a form (b) a sculpture (c) a cube (d) a shape
- 24.🖌️ Is drying bristles up good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 25.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “soft and gentle”? (a) vertical lines (b) curved lines (c) zigzag lines (d) diagonal lines
- 26.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) dashes on a road (b) the teeth of a saw (c) ocean waves (d) a laser beam
- 27.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a globe (b) an ice-cream cone (c) a shoe box (d) a dice
- 28.True or false: we use a sponge for dabbing soft textures. (a) True (b) False
- 29.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) oil pastels (b) wax crayons (c) watercolour (d) poster colour
- 30.True or false: “a sense of near and far” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 31.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) straight line (b) spiral line (c) dotted or broken line (d) zigzag line
- 32.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) the part nearest you (b) the part in between (c) the top of the scene (d) far hills and the sky
- 33.✏️ Which shading method uses smooth, soft tones? (a) hatching (b) stippling (c) cross-hatching (d) blending
- 34.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) 4H (c) 6B (d) 4B
- 35.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
- 36.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) lots of tiny dots (b) lines all one way (c) lines crossing over (d) smudging with a finger
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows more detail (b) looks paler and bluer (c) overlaps other things (d) looks bigger
- 38.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the background. (a) True (b) False
- 39.Which of these is the element called space? (a) gaps between things (b) a moving dot’s path (c) a long, thin mark (d) a closed flat outline
- 40.True or false: on a shaded ball, the dark shape it throws is called the highlight. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- good brush care
- shadow side
- True
- 7
- horizontal lines
- a 2D shape
- False
- 1
- easel
- dark value
- a 3D form
- round brush
- line
- frame
- False
- False
- False
- the bottom of the page
- HB
- horizontal lines
- False
- good brush care
- a shape
- good brush care
- curved lines
- the teeth of a saw
- a dice
- True
- watercolour
- True
- dotted or broken line
- the part in between
- blending
- 4H
- foreground
- lines crossing over
- looks paler and bluer
- False
- gaps between things
- False
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