Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 276 · 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 flat 2D shape? (a) cube (b) pyramid (c) cuboid (d) triangle
2. 2.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
3. 3.Which of these is called hatching? (a) lines crossing over (b) lots of tiny dots (c) lines all one way (d) criss-cross lines
4. 4.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
5. 5.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) rectangle (b) triangle (c) cube (d) star
6. 6.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
7. 7.True or false: “bright, flat colour” is a feature of poster colour. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) pencil
9. 9.🖌️ Is reshaping the tip good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
10. 10.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a long, thin mark (b) what a rainbow shows (c) a solid 3D object (d) a sense of near and far
11. 11.True or false: on a shaded ball, the brightest spot is called the highlight. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, light washes”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) oil pastels
13. 13.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) soft, light washes (b) do not smudge easily (c) grey lines for sketching (d) light first outlines
14. 14.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a closed flat outline (b) how a surface feels (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) a moving dot’s path
15. 15.True or false: a standing tree trunk is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) the darker half of it (b) the side away from light (c) the dark shape it throws (d) where light hits most
17. 17.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a candle (b) a brick (c) a marble (d) a football
18. 18.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
19. 19.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) the area around objects (c) looks furry or scaly (d) a moving dot’s path
20. 20.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called hatching. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: a playground slide is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: a tall lamp post is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
24. 24.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) HB (b) 6B (c) 2B (d) 4B
25. 25.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) colour (b) texture (c) shape (d) value
26. 26.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
27. 27.True or false: “bright, flat colour” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) far hills and the sky (b) the part in between (c) the part farthest away (d) things that look biggest
29. 29.True or false: pencil grade 4B makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
31. 31.🧱 Which element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) colour (b) space (c) value (d) form
32. 32.📐 Is a triangle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
33. 33.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.💡 On a shaded ball, what is its shadow on the table called? (a) cast shadow (b) highlight (c) shadow side
35. 35.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) zigzag line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) straight line
36. 36.True or false: a paint splash is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) value (b) texture (c) shape (d) line
38. 38.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, creamy sticks”? (a) poster colour (b) pencil (c) oil pastels (d) wax crayons
39. 39.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) see-through colour (d) mixed with lots of water
40. 40.📏 Draw the edge of a calm sea with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical

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