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 lightning bolt looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 3.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) light first outlines (b) do not smudge easily (c) see-through colour (d) soft, creamy sticks
- 4.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a falling tree (c) a sleeping person (d) a person standing tall
- 5.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) circle (b) pyramid (c) sphere (d) cuboid
- 6.True or false: a puddle is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
- 7.True or false: a jalebi looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
- 8.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) 2B (b) HB
- 9.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) sand (b) water and mild soap (c) hot oil (d) glue
- 10.What do we use a sponge for? (a) rinsing brushes (b) dabbing soft textures (c) holding paper flat (d) giving a pencil a point
- 11.Which of these is called blending? (a) criss-cross lines (b) smooth, soft tones (c) lines all one way (d) lines crossing over
- 12.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) leaving it in water (b) reshaping the tip (c) rinsing between colours (d) washing with mild soap
- 13.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 14.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter B stand for? (a) big (b) brown (c) blue (d) black
- 15.💡 On a shaded ball, what is its shadow on the table called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
- 16.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) hatching
- 17.True or false: a triangle is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 19.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
- 20.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) glue (b) space (c) colour (d) shape
- 21.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
- 22.Which of these is the element called value? (a) can be seen all round (b) a flat 2D area (c) the area around objects (d) how light or dark it is
- 23.Which of these is the element called form? (a) has height, width, depth (b) a closed flat outline (c) a sense of near and far (d) a moving dot’s path
- 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks smaller (b) overlaps other things (c) shows less detail (d) looks paler and bluer
- 25.True or false: standing on its bristles is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🎯 The part of a picture your eye goes to first is the… (a) background (b) border (c) focal point (d) horizon
- 27.🧊 Which 3D form is a candle shaped like? (a) cone (b) cylinder (c) cuboid (d) sphere
- 28.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 29.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a cut-here line (b) a lightning bolt (c) a jalebi (d) a tightly pulled rope
- 30.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
- 31.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) line (b) shape (c) form (d) texture
- 32.📐 Is a rectangle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 33.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) is partly hidden (b) shows more detail (c) looks paler and bluer (d) looks smaller
- 34.📐 Is a pyramid a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 35.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the shadow side. (a) True (b) False
- 36.True or false: cream has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 37.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a sense of near and far (b) can be seen all round (c) a moving dot’s path (d) a flat 2D area
- 38.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 39.True or false: a tightly pulled rope looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 40.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- False
- geometric shape
- soft, creamy sticks
- a falling tree
- circle
- True
- True
- 2B
- water and mild soap
- dabbing soft textures
- smooth, soft tones
- leaving it in water
- hard, light marks
- black
- cast shadow
- hatching
- False
- 7
- foreground
- glue
- soft, dark marks
- how light or dark it is
- has height, width, depth
- overlaps other things
- False
- focal point
- cylinder
- dark value
- a lightning bolt
- vertical
- shape
- a 2D shape
- shows more detail
- a 3D form
- True
- False
- a sense of near and far
- bad for the brush
- False
- False
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