Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 262 · 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.True or false: a falling tree is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) a hue, like red or blue (c) a flat 2D area (d) rough, smooth or bumpy
3. 3.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) space (b) texture (c) value (d) line
4. 4.True or false: an object that sits near the horizon seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) line (b) space (c) shape (d) colour
6. 6.📏 What kind of line does ocean waves look like? (a) wavy line (b) zigzag line (c) straight line (d) spiral line
7. 7.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
8. 8.True or false: “blend with a fingertip” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) triangle (b) star (c) cuboid (d) rectangle
10. 10.True or false: dashes on a road looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: “bright, flat colour” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) sits lower on the page (b) shows more detail (c) is partly hidden (d) overlaps other things
13. 13.True or false: a cone is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧱 Which element of art is “a solid 3D object”? (a) value (b) space (c) shape (d) form
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) circle (b) pyramid (c) rectangle (d) square
16. 16.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) curved lines (b) diagonal lines (c) horizontal lines (d) zigzag lines
17. 17.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
18. 18.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
19. 19.True or false: a standing tree trunk is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) is partly hidden (b) sits lower on the page (c) looks smaller (d) shows less detail
21. 21.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: an object that is partly hidden seems far away. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: “has height, width, depth” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
25. 25.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) hot oil (b) water and mild soap (c) sand (d) glue
26. 26.True or false: pencil grade 6B makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
28. 28.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) only length and width (c) from white to black (d) how a surface feels
29. 29.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called form. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called blending. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) bristles up or flat (b) bristles down (c) with paint on it (d) in the water pot
32. 32.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) mixed with lots of water (c) blend with a fingertip (d) grey lines for sketching
33. 33.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part farthest away (b) the bottom of the page (c) things that look biggest (d) the part nearest you
34. 34.Which of these is the element called form? (a) a flat 2D area (b) looks furry or scaly (c) can be seen all round (d) how light or dark it is
35. 35.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
36. 36.Which of these is called stippling? (a) smudging with a finger (b) many parallel lines (c) criss-cross lines (d) lots of tiny dots
37. 37.True or false: scrubbing hard on paper is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
39. 39.True or false: on a shaded ball, where light hits most is called the shadow side. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🖌️ Is drying bristles up good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush

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