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 good brush care? (a) standing on its bristles (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) letting paint dry on it (d) rinsing between colours
- 2.True or false: a circle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 3.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 4.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) the area around objects (b) how a surface feels (c) a long, thin mark (d) gaps between things
- 5.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 6.True or false: dark brown has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) texture (b) frame (c) line (d) value
- 8.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 9.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) line (b) texture (c) shape (d) value
- 10.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 11.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a falling tree (c) a standing tree trunk (d) a leaning ladder
- 12.True or false: a leaning ladder is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
- 13.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
- 14.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 6B (b) HB (c) 4H (d) B
- 15.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) in the water pot (b) bristles up or flat (c) with paint on it (d) bristles down
- 16.📏 Draw a tall lamp post with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 17.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) poster colour (d) pencil
- 18.True or false: “do not smudge easily” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) False (b) True
- 19.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 20.Which of these is called blending? (a) many parallel lines (b) dots packed close (c) smudging with a finger (d) lines all one way
- 21.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 22.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) star (b) rectangle (c) cone (d) circle
- 24.True or false: “do not smudge easily” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
- 25.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) cross-hatching (b) stippling (c) hatching (d) blending
- 26.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) line (b) shape (c) texture (d) value
- 27.True or false: a triangle is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🔭 In a picture, an object that overlaps other things seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 29.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) glue (c) space (d) colour
- 30.🧊 Which 3D form is a candle shaped like? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) cylinder (d) cube
- 31.🧱 Which element of art is “only length and width”? (a) space (b) texture (c) shape (d) colour
- 32.True or false: we use masking tape for dabbing soft textures. (a) True (b) False
- 33.Which of these is the element called form? (a) how a surface feels (b) gaps between things (c) only length and width (d) has height, width, depth
- 34.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 35.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 36.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) how light or dark it is (c) has height, width, depth (d) only length and width
- 37.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a brick (b) a marble (c) a candle (d) a sugar cube
- 38.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a closed flat outline (b) how light or dark it is (c) what a rainbow shows (d) a moving dot’s path
- 39.Which of these is the element called space? (a) looks furry or scaly (b) a closed flat outline (c) how a surface feels (d) a sense of near and far
- 40.True or false: a falling tree is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- rinsing between colours
- False
- light value
- how a surface feels
- True
- True
- frame
- 7
- value
- cast shadow
- a standing tree trunk
- True
- True
- 4H
- bristles up or flat
- vertical
- wax crayons
- True
- foreground
- smudging with a finger
- vertical
- hard, light marks
- cone
- False
- stippling
- shape
- True
- near the viewer
- glue
- cylinder
- shape
- False
- has height, width, depth
- diagonal
- True
- only length and width
- a sugar cube
- a moving dot’s path
- a sense of near and far
- True
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