Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 366 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
2. 2.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
3. 3.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a flat outline (b) a 2D shape (c) a 3D form
4. 4.🧱 Which element of art is “looks furry or scaly”? (a) line (b) form (c) texture (d) shape
5. 5.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
6. 6.Which of these is good brush care? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) standing on its bristles (d) drying bristles up
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows more detail (b) shows less detail (c) looks bigger (d) sits lower on the page
8. 8.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
9. 9.True or false: “blend with a fingertip” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
11. 11.Which of these is called hatching? (a) criss-cross lines (b) lines all one way (c) lines crossing over (d) lots of tiny dots
12. 12.Which of these is the element called value? (a) how light or dark it is (b) only length and width (c) a closed flat outline (d) can be seen all round
13. 13.True or false: an oval is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.What do we use an easel for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) holding a board upright (c) mixing colours (d) giving a pencil a point
15. 15.True or false: the edge of a calm sea is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) colour (b) shape (c) texture (d) value
17. 17.True or false: a leaning ladder is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a marble (b) a candle (c) a sugar cube (d) a shoe box
19. 19.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) pencil
20. 20.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks paler and bluer seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
21. 21.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a sense of near and far (b) has height, width, depth (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) from white to black
22. 22.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
23. 23.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a flag in the wind (b) a snail shell (c) a row of pointy peaks (d) a cut-here line
24. 24.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the middle ground. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧊 Which 3D form is a party hat shaped like? (a) cube (b) cuboid (c) cone (d) cylinder
26. 26.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
27. 27.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called hatching. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🧊 Which 3D form is a brick shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) sphere (c) cube (d) cone
29. 29.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a person standing tall (c) a playground slide (d) a leaning ladder
30. 30.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) blending (d) cross-hatching
31. 31.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “grey lines for sketching”? (a) oil pastels (b) pencil (c) wax crayons (d) poster colour
32. 32.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🖌️ Is standing on its bristles good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
34. 34.📏 What kind of line does a ruler’s edge look like? (a) spiral line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) zigzag line
35. 35.True or false: dark brown has a light value. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) blend with a fingertip (b) do not smudge easily (c) thick, opaque paint (d) soft, light washes
37. 37.🎯 The part of a picture your eye goes to first is the… (a) horizon (b) border (c) background (d) focal point
38. 38.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) blend with a fingertip (b) soft, light washes (c) grey lines for sketching (d) bright, flat colour
39. 39.True or false: light grey has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) texture (b) space (c) value (d) line

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