Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 25 · 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.🍃 Is a paint splash a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
2. 2.True or false: on a shaded ball, its shadow on the table is called the highlight. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) cube (b) sphere (c) square (d) cone
4. 4.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) looks furry or scaly (b) a hue, like red or blue (c) has height, width, depth (d) a flat 2D area
5. 5.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) zigzag line (b) dotted or broken line (c) wavy line (d) spiral line
6. 6.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape (c) a flat outline
7. 7.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) hatching (b) cross-hatching (c) blending (d) stippling
8. 8.True or false: washing with mild soap is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
10. 10.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a cut-here line (b) a wriggling snake (c) a jalebi (d) the teeth of a saw
12. 12.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) bright, flat colour (c) grey lines for sketching (d) soft, creamy sticks
13. 13.Which of these is good brush care? (a) leaving it in water (b) letting paint dry on it (c) rinsing between colours (d) scrubbing hard on paper
14. 14.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) straight line
15. 15.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits near the horizon seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
16. 16.True or false: pencil grade H makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: dark grey has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which of these is the element called form? (a) only length and width (b) what a rainbow shows (c) a flat 2D area (d) has height, width, depth
19. 19.What do we use a sponge for? (a) holding a board upright (b) rinsing brushes (c) dabbing soft textures (d) mixing colours
20. 20.True or false: an object that is partly hidden seems far away. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) standing on its bristles (c) letting paint dry on it (d) leaving it in water
22. 22.🍃 Is a puddle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
23. 23.True or false: scrubbing hard on paper is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧊 Which 3D form is a traffic cone shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cone (c) cuboid (d) sphere
25. 25.📏 Draw a tall lamp post with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
26. 26.True or false: pencil grade H makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “has height, width, depth” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) gaps between things (b) a closed flat outline (c) a sense of near and far (d) a hue, like red or blue
29. 29.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) a sense of near and far (c) rough, smooth or bumpy (d) a closed flat outline
30. 30.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) texture (b) line (c) colour (d) space
31. 31.🖌️ Is reshaping the tip good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
32. 32.True or false: we use a water pot for rinsing brushes. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a matchbox (b) a water pipe (c) a marble (d) a dice
34. 34.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) hatching (b) cross-hatching (c) blending (d) stippling
35. 35.🧱 Which element of art is “only length and width”? (a) value (b) colour (c) texture (d) shape
36. 36.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 6B (b) 4B (c) B (d) 4H
37. 37.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) foreground (b) highlight (c) border (d) vanishing point
38. 38.📏 What kind of line does a ruler’s edge look like? (a) spiral line (b) dotted or broken line (c) zigzag line (d) straight line
39. 39.True or false: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) shows more detail (c) looks smaller (d) looks bigger

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