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.🧊 Which 3D form is a shoe box shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cone (c) cube (d) cuboid
- 2.True or false: light grey has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 3.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) poster colour (b) charcoal (c) pencil (d) watercolour
- 4.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 5.True or false: on a shaded ball, the brightest spot is called the highlight. (a) False (b) True
- 6.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 7.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 8.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) looks bigger (b) sits lower on the page (c) overlaps other things (d) shows less detail
- 9.True or false: we use an easel for rinsing brushes. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a wide flat brush (b) a sponge (c) a big roller (d) a small round brush
- 11.📏 What kind of line does a ruler’s edge look like? (a) wavy line (b) zigzag line (c) straight line (d) spiral line
- 12.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called stippling. (a) True (b) False
- 13.What do we use a palette for? (a) giving a pencil a point (b) mixing colours (c) wide, straight strokes (d) rinsing brushes
- 14.Which of these is the element called line? (a) how a surface feels (b) how light or dark it is (c) only length and width (d) a moving dot’s path
- 15.True or false: dark brown has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 16.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a dice (b) a sugar cube (c) a traffic cone (d) a drinking straw
- 17.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
- 18.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 19.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 20.True or false: shading with smudging with a finger is called stippling. (a) True (b) False
- 21.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) texture (b) colour (c) line (d) space
- 22.📏 What kind of line does a lightning bolt look like? (a) zigzag line (b) straight line (c) wavy line (d) dotted or broken line
- 23.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) straight line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) zigzag line
- 24.True or false: a sleeping person is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
- 25.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) form (b) value (c) line (d) space
- 26.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) standing on its bristles (b) reshaping the tip (c) washing with mild soap (d) drying bristles up
- 27.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) horizontal lines (b) zigzag lines (c) vertical lines (d) curved lines
- 28.True or false: a jalebi looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 29.⚽ How many flat faces does a sphere have?
- 30.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a wavy line. (a) False (b) True
- 31.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) hatching
- 32.What do we use masking tape for? (a) mixing colours (b) holding a board upright (c) holding paper flat (d) rinsing brushes
- 33.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) standing on its bristles (c) reshaping the tip (d) leaving it in water
- 34.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) things that look biggest (b) the part nearest you (c) the bottom of the page (d) far hills and the sky
- 35.📏 What kind of line does a snail shell look like? (a) spiral line (b) wavy line (c) dotted or broken line (d) straight line
- 36.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) sponge (b) masking tape (c) sharpener (d) palette
- 37.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) frame (b) texture (c) line (d) value
- 38.✏️ Which side of a ball facing a lamp is the lightest? (a) the side away from it (b) the bottom (c) the side facing the lamp
- 39.True or false: “a sense of near and far” is the element called space. (a) True (b) False
- 40.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a falling tree (b) a tall lamp post (c) a table top (d) a person standing tall
Answer key
- cuboid
- False
- poster colour
- 7
- True
- False
- True
- shows less detail
- False
- a small round brush
- straight line
- True
- mixing colours
- a moving dot’s path
- False
- a traffic cone
- watercolour
- vertical
- background
- False
- space
- zigzag line
- spiral line
- False
- line
- standing on its bristles
- vertical lines
- True
- 0
- False
- hatching
- holding paper flat
- reshaping the tip
- far hills and the sky
- spiral line
- masking tape
- frame
- the side facing the lamp
- True
- a falling tree
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