Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 299 · 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: white has a light value. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
3. 3.🧊 Which 3D form is a water pipe shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cone (c) sphere (d) cube
4. 4.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) HB (b) 2H (c) 2B (d) B
5. 5.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) farther away (b) closer to you (c) taller (d) younger
6. 6.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) sphere (b) cube (c) cone (d) square
7. 7.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the top of the scene? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
8. 8.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) line (b) form (c) texture (d) shape
9. 9.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) form (b) space (c) shape (d) texture
10. 10.What do we use a round brush for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) fine lines and details (c) holding a board upright (d) mixing colours
11. 11.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
12. 12.✏️ Which pencil makes lighter lines: HB or 2H? (a) 2H (b) HB
13. 13.What do we use an easel for? (a) holding a board upright (b) holding paper flat (c) giving a pencil a point (d) wide, straight strokes
14. 14.🎯 The part of a picture your eye goes to first is the… (a) background (b) horizon (c) border (d) focal point
15. 15.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) lines crossing over (b) lots of tiny dots (c) smudging with a finger (d) smooth, soft tones
16. 16.True or false: a hexagon is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: “blend with a fingertip” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) leaving it in water (c) standing on its bristles (d) drying bristles up
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows more detail (b) sits lower on the page (c) is partly hidden (d) overlaps other things
20. 20.True or false: pencil grade H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is the element called form? (a) a flat 2D area (b) a solid 3D object (c) the area around objects (d) rough, smooth or bumpy
22. 22.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a zigzag line (b) a straight line (c) a wavy line (d) a dotted line
23. 23.🧱 Which element of art is “only length and width”? (a) line (b) space (c) shape (d) value
24. 24.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) bristles down (b) in the water pot (c) with paint on it (d) bristles up or flat
25. 25.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) grey lines for sketching (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) soft, creamy sticks (d) bright, flat colour
26. 26.True or false: ocean waves looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of a pencil. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: an object that looks bigger seems far away. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: “a sense of near and far” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
31. 31.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
32. 32.True or false: “gaps between things” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: a cylinder is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: a person standing tall is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a snail shell (b) a laser beam (c) dashes on a road (d) a coiled rope
36. 36.True or false: pencil grade HB makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “falling or sliding”? (a) diagonal lines (b) zigzag lines (c) horizontal lines (d) vertical lines
38. 38.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) value (b) texture (c) line (d) shape
39. 39.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) cube (b) circle (c) sphere (d) cone
40. 40.True or false: “has height, width, depth” is the element called value. (a) False (b) True

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