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.🍃 Is a flower petal a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 2.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) star (b) square (c) pyramid (d) circle
- 3.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) lots of tiny dots (b) many parallel lines (c) lines crossing over (d) dots packed close
- 4.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) light first outlines (b) thick, opaque paint (c) see-through colour (d) bright, flat colour
- 5.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) rinsing between colours (c) drying bristles up (d) washing with mild soap
- 6.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) texture (b) form (c) space (d) value
- 7.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “light first outlines”? (a) poster colour (b) pencil (c) watercolour (d) wax crayons
- 8.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 9.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a jalebi (b) a cut-here line (c) ocean waves (d) a ruler’s edge
- 10.Which of these is the element called line? (a) looks furry or scaly (b) a moving dot’s path (c) a solid 3D object (d) how light or dark it is
- 11.🧰 Which art tool do we use for wide, straight strokes? (a) palette (b) flat brush (c) water pot (d) round brush
- 12.✏️ Which pencil is softer: 4B or 2B? (a) 2B (b) 4B
- 13.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 14.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) oil pastels (b) wax crayons (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
- 15.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) colour (b) shape (c) space (d) texture
- 16.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) rinsing between colours (b) washing with mild soap (c) reshaping the tip (d) scrubbing hard on paper
- 17.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 18.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a cube (b) a shape (c) a sculpture (d) a form
- 19.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 20.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) looks furry or scaly (c) how a surface feels (d) the area around objects
- 21.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) what a rainbow shows (b) from white to black (c) the area around objects (d) how a surface feels
- 22.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sits near the horizon (b) sits lower on the page (c) is partly hidden (d) shows less detail
- 24.🍃 Is a square a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 25.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) HB (b) 2H (c) 6B (d) H
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows more detail (b) sits near the horizon (c) looks smaller (d) shows less detail
- 27.True or false: a sphere is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks bigger (b) shows more detail (c) sits lower on the page (d) sits near the horizon
- 29.True or false: pencil grade HB makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 30.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called cross-hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 31.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) rectangle (b) cuboid (c) cube (d) sphere
- 32.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
- 33.🧊 Which 3D form is a party hat shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cube (c) cuboid (d) cone
- 34.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) looks smaller (b) shows less detail (c) overlaps other things (d) looks paler and bluer
- 35.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) blend with a fingertip (b) soft, light washes (c) light first outlines (d) bright, flat colour
- 36.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) see-through colour (c) bright, flat colour (d) mixed with lots of water
- 37.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
- 38.True or false: pencil grade 2B makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) texture (b) value (c) line (d) shape
- 40.Which of these is good brush care? (a) leaving it in water (b) standing on its bristles (c) rinsing between colours (d) letting paint dry on it
Answer key
- organic shape
- pyramid
- lines crossing over
- see-through colour
- letting paint dry on it
- form
- pencil
- 9
- a cut-here line
- a moving dot’s path
- flat brush
- 4B
- 7
- poster colour
- shape
- scrubbing hard on paper
- horizontal
- a shape
- True
- a hue, like red or blue
- how a surface feels
- geometric shape
- sits lower on the page
- geometric shape
- 6B
- shows more detail
- False
- sits near the horizon
- False
- True
- rectangle
- foreground
- cone
- overlaps other things
- soft, light washes
- hard, waxy sticks
- False
- False
- value
- rinsing between colours
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