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 the element called colour? (a) has height, width, depth (b) a hue, like red or blue (c) a moving dot’s path (d) a closed flat outline
- 2.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 3.True or false: navy blue has a light value. (a) False (b) True
- 4.✏️ Which pencil is harder: 4H or 2H? (a) 2H (b) 4H
- 5.Which of these is called stippling? (a) lines crossing over (b) dots packed close (c) criss-cross lines (d) smudging with a finger
- 6.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 7.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a brick (b) a matchbox (c) an ice-cream cone (d) a marble
- 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) square (b) star (c) cuboid (d) triangle
- 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) is partly hidden (b) looks smaller (c) looks bigger (d) looks paler and bluer
- 10.True or false: reshaping the tip is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 11.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) square (b) triangle (c) rectangle (d) cuboid
- 12.True or false: a flower petal is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
- 13.True or false: the edge of a calm sea is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 14.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a sleeping person (c) a leaning ladder (d) a person standing tall
- 15.📏 Draw the edge of a calm sea with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 16.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks bigger (b) overlaps other things (c) looks paler and bluer (d) sits lower on the page
- 18.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) diagonal lines (b) vertical lines (c) curved lines (d) horizontal lines
- 19.True or false: a square is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 20.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
- 21.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) square (b) star (c) rectangle (d) cube
- 22.True or false: a tightly pulled rope looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
- 23.True or false: dark brown has a light value. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🧊 Which 3D form is a shoe box shaped like? (a) cone (b) cylinder (c) cube (d) cuboid
- 25.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a dotted line (b) a zigzag line (c) a straight line (d) a wavy line
- 26.✏️ With one pencil, how do you make your shading darker? (a) use an eraser (b) press harder (c) add water (d) press lighter
- 27.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) space (b) line (c) shape (d) value
- 28.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cube (b) cone (c) pyramid (d) circle
- 29.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) dabbing soft textures (b) holding paper flat (c) giving a pencil a point (d) rinsing brushes
- 30.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) sphere (b) cone (c) circle (d) cube
- 31.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) eyes (b) knees (c) elbows (d) feet
- 32.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 33.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) blending (b) stippling (c) hatching (d) cross-hatching
- 34.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called blending. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: a leaf is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 37.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows less detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 38.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a coiled rope (b) a cut-here line (c) a row of pointy peaks (d) a ruler’s edge
- 39.🔭 In a picture, an object that is partly hidden seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 40.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) palette (b) water pot (c) flat brush (d) sharpener
Answer key
- a hue, like red or blue
- geometric shape
- False
- 4H
- dots packed close
- near the viewer
- a marble
- cuboid
- looks bigger
- True
- cuboid
- True
- True
- a leaning ladder
- horizontal
- False
- looks paler and bluer
- vertical lines
- False
- horizontal
- cube
- True
- False
- cuboid
- a wavy line
- press harder
- space
- circle
- giving a pencil a point
- cube
- eyes
- soft, dark marks
- hatching
- False
- False
- bad for the brush
- far away
- a cut-here line
- far away
- palette
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