Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 231 · 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 the element called value? (a) a flat 2D area (b) a closed flat outline (c) how light or dark it is (d) a long, thin mark
2. 2.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) H (b) HB (c) 2B (d) 4H
3. 3.True or false: pencil grade HB makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
5. 5.True or false: “a closed flat outline” is the element called shape. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) drying bristles up (c) leaving it in water (d) standing on its bristles
7. 7.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a football (b) a traffic cone (c) a party hat (d) a dice
8. 8.True or false: “can be seen all round” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧰 Which art tool do we use for wide, straight strokes? (a) sharpener (b) water pot (c) round brush (d) flat brush
10. 10.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
11. 11.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
12. 12.🧰 Which art tool do we use for dabbing soft textures? (a) sponge (b) palette (c) water pot (d) sharpener
13. 13.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) hatching (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) blending
14. 14.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits near the horizon seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
15. 15.True or false: a coiled rope looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 2B (b) B (c) 4H (d) HB
17. 17.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) horizontal lines (b) curved lines (c) zigzag lines (d) diagonal lines
18. 18.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “blend with a fingertip”? (a) poster colour (b) wax crayons (c) watercolour (d) oil pastels
19. 19.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a globe (b) a drinking straw (c) a marble (d) a brick
20. 20.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) the part nearest you (b) the part in between (c) the bottom of the page (d) far hills and the sky
21. 21.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) space (b) texture (c) colour (d) line
22. 22.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
23. 23.🧊 Which 3D form is a party hat shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) cylinder (c) sphere (d) cone
24. 24.📏 What kind of line does a lightning bolt look like? (a) wavy line (b) zigzag line (c) spiral line (d) straight line
25. 25.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
26. 26.True or false: a cloud is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) gaps between things (b) what a rainbow shows (c) from white to black (d) how a surface feels
28. 28.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a flat 2D area (b) from white to black (c) a moving dot’s path (d) a hue, like red or blue
29. 29.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, light washes”? (a) watercolour (b) pencil (c) wax crayons (d) poster colour
30. 30.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) border (b) vanishing point (c) foreground (d) highlight
31. 31.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) cone (b) sphere (c) square (d) cube
32. 32.✏️ Which shading method uses dots packed close? (a) blending (b) stippling (c) cross-hatching (d) hatching
33. 33.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
34. 34.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
35. 35.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) colour (c) glue (d) space
36. 36.True or false: “soft, creamy sticks” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: we use a flat brush for wide, straight strokes. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
39. 39.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called stippling. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the bottom of the page (b) the top of the scene (c) far hills and the sky (d) the part farthest away

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