Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 3 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) cuboid (b) sphere (c) cube (d) circle
2. 2.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) cast shadow (b) highlight (c) shadow side
3. 3.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) cone (b) sphere (c) cube (d) circle
4. 4.True or false: a standing tree trunk is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a wavy line (b) a dotted line (c) a zigzag line (d) a straight line
6. 6.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) 2B (b) HB
7. 7.What do we use a flat brush for? (a) giving a pencil a point (b) mixing colours (c) rinsing brushes (d) wide, straight strokes
8. 8.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a laser beam (b) stitches on cloth (c) a snail shell (d) a row of pointy peaks
9. 9.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
10. 10.True or false: a star is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: pencil grade 6B makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.💡 On a shaded ball, what is its shadow on the table called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
13. 13.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) curved lines (b) horizontal lines (c) vertical lines (d) zigzag lines
14. 14.🧰 Which art tool do we use for wide, straight strokes? (a) flat brush (b) masking tape (c) easel (d) sharpener
15. 15.Which of these is called hatching? (a) dots packed close (b) smudging with a finger (c) lots of tiny dots (d) lines all one way
16. 16.Which of these is called stippling? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) criss-cross lines (c) lots of tiny dots (d) lines crossing over
17. 17.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a falling tree (b) the edge of a calm sea (c) a tall lamp post (d) a playground slide
18. 18.True or false: pencil grade 2B makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
20. 20.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter B stand for? (a) blue (b) big (c) black (d) brown
21. 21.📏 Draw a falling tree with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
22. 22.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
23. 23.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) hatching
24. 24.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
25. 25.True or false: we use an easel for holding a board upright. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called value. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) an ice-cream cone (b) a traffic cone (c) a dice (d) a football
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) standing on its bristles (c) leaving it in water (d) drying bristles up
29. 29.True or false: pencil grade 2B makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part in between (b) far hills and the sky (c) the bottom of the page (d) the part farthest away
31. 31.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) shape (b) value (c) space (d) texture
32. 32.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a traffic cone (b) a water pipe (c) a football (d) a dice
33. 33.Which of these is the element called space? (a) from white to black (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) gaps between things (d) has height, width, depth
34. 34.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
35. 35.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
36. 36.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) the part nearest you (b) things that look biggest (c) the part in between (d) the part farthest away
37. 37.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “falling or sliding”? (a) curved lines (b) diagonal lines (c) vertical lines (d) zigzag lines
38. 38.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) cylinder (c) cone (d) star
40. 40.📐 Is an oval a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form

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