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 of these is a solid 3D form? (a) rectangle (b) oval (c) cylinder (d) triangle
- 2.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part farthest away is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 3.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) stippling (b) cross-hatching (c) hatching (d) blending
- 4.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) square (b) star (c) triangle (d) cone
- 5.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called blending. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) shape (b) form (c) line (d) texture
- 7.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 8.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) value (b) form (c) colour (d) shape
- 9.📐 Is a triangle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 10.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part farthest away (b) far hills and the sky (c) things that look biggest (d) the part in between
- 11.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cuboid (b) cylinder (c) pyramid (d) circle
- 12.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) straight line
- 13.True or false: a leaf is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🧰 Which art tool do we use for rinsing brushes? (a) flat brush (b) masking tape (c) water pot (d) easel
- 15.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) HB (b) 2B
- 16.Which of these is called hatching? (a) lots of tiny dots (b) lines all one way (c) smudging with a finger (d) dots packed close
- 17.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a person standing tall (b) a falling tree (c) the edge of a calm sea (d) a leaning ladder
- 18.True or false: letting paint dry on it is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 19.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a cut-here line (b) dashes on a road (c) a tightly pulled rope (d) a jalebi
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) letting paint dry on it (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) leaving it in water
- 21.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) wax crayons (b) watercolour (c) pencil (d) poster colour
- 22.True or false: shading with smooth, soft tones is called stippling. (a) True (b) False
- 23.Which of these is the element called form? (a) gaps between things (b) a long, thin mark (c) has height, width, depth (d) the area around objects
- 24.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks bigger seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 25.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) spiral line (b) straight line (c) wavy line (d) dotted or broken line
- 26.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called line. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🧰 Which art tool do we use for giving a pencil a point? (a) sponge (b) sharpener (c) round brush (d) masking tape
- 28.True or false: “from white to black” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 29.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a straight line (b) a spiral (c) a dotted line (d) a zigzag
- 30.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) cone (b) square (c) cube (d) sphere
- 31.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) False (b) True
- 32.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a coiled rope (b) a snail shell (c) a jalebi (d) a flag in the wind
- 33.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 4H (b) HB (c) B (d) 4B
- 34.True or false: we use a round brush for holding a board upright. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: a sleeping person is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) texture (c) frame (d) value
- 37.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) cube (b) triangle (c) star (d) oval
- 38.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) border (b) highlight (c) foreground (d) vanishing point
- 39.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) feet (b) knees (c) eyes (d) elbows
Answer key
- cylinder
- False
- cross-hatching
- cone
- False
- line
- 7
- colour
- a 2D shape
- things that look biggest
- circle
- spiral line
- True
- water pot
- 2B
- lines all one way
- the edge of a calm sea
- False
- a tightly pulled rope
- reshaping the tip
- poster colour
- False
- has height, width, depth
- near the viewer
- wavy line
- False
- sharpener
- False
- a spiral
- sphere
- False
- a flag in the wind
- HB
- False
- False
- frame
- cube
- vanishing point
- False
- eyes
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