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.True or false: a leaning ladder is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 2.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 4B (b) 4H (c) H (d) 2H
- 3.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) poster colour (b) wax crayons (c) watercolour (d) oil pastels
- 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cuboid (b) circle (c) sphere (d) cylinder
- 5.🧊 How many flat faces does a cube have?
- 6.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
- 7.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) glue (c) space (d) colour
- 8.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 9.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the side away from light called? (a) shadow side (b) highlight (c) cast shadow
- 10.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) sits lower on the page (c) looks bigger (d) looks paler and bluer
- 11.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a flat 2D area (b) the area around objects (c) a long, thin mark (d) how light or dark it is
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) standing on its bristles (c) letting paint dry on it (d) leaving it in water
- 13.True or false: an object that overlaps other things seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 14.✏️ Which side of a ball facing a lamp is the lightest? (a) the side facing the lamp (b) the bottom (c) the side away from it
- 15.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) taller (b) younger (c) farther away (d) closer to you
- 16.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a sleeping person (b) a person standing tall (c) the edge of a calm sea (d) a leaning ladder
- 17.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 18.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) with paint on it (b) bristles down (c) in the water pot (d) bristles up or flat
- 19.💡 The light comes from the RIGHT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) above the object (b) on the right side (c) inside the object (d) on the left side
- 20.True or false: white has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 21.📏 What kind of line does a tightly pulled rope look like? (a) wavy line (b) spiral line (c) straight line (d) dotted or broken line
- 22.🧱 Which element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) form (b) colour (c) value (d) line
- 23.True or false: dark brown has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 24.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 4H (b) 6B (c) H (d) 2H
- 25.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
- 26.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 27.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) stippling (b) blending (c) hatching (d) cross-hatching
- 28.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 29.Which of these is good brush care? (a) washing with mild soap (b) standing on its bristles (c) leaving it in water (d) letting paint dry on it
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) is partly hidden (b) shows less detail (c) looks smaller (d) sits lower on the page
- 31.🖼️ In the rule of thirds, where should the main subject go? (a) at the very edge (b) in a corner (c) off the page (d) where the lines cross
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) standing on its bristles (c) reshaping the tip (d) scrubbing hard on paper
- 33.True or false: pencil grade 4B makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 34.True or false: an object that shows more detail seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🧰 Which art tool do we use for rinsing brushes? (a) water pot (b) masking tape (c) sharpener (d) palette
- 36.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part in between? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
- 37.True or false: light grey has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 38.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a dotted line (b) a zigzag line (c) a wavy line (d) a straight line
- 39.Which of these is called stippling? (a) smudging with a finger (b) smooth, soft tones (c) many parallel lines (d) lots of tiny dots
- 40.True or false: “how light or dark it is” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- False
- 4B
- wax crayons
- circle
- 6
- horizontal
- glue
- good brush care
- shadow side
- looks paler and bluer
- a flat 2D area
- rinsing between colours
- True
- the side facing the lamp
- farther away
- a leaning ladder
- dark value
- bristles up or flat
- on the left side
- True
- straight line
- form
- False
- 6B
- foreground
- 9
- cross-hatching
- light value
- washing with mild soap
- sits lower on the page
- where the lines cross
- reshaping the tip
- False
- False
- water pot
- middle ground
- True
- a wavy line
- lots of tiny dots
- False
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