Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 385 · 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.True or false: a table top is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) line (b) shape (c) value (d) texture
3. 3.Which of these is shaped like a cylinder? (a) a sugar cube (b) a football (c) a water pipe (d) a traffic cone
4. 4.What do we use a round brush for? (a) fine lines and details (b) mixing colours (c) holding a board upright (d) rinsing brushes
5. 5.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cone (b) cylinder (c) sphere (d) circle
7. 7.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the shadow side. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
9. 9.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) looks bigger (b) looks smaller (c) sits near the horizon (d) is partly hidden
10. 10.Which of these is called hatching? (a) smudging with a finger (b) many parallel lines (c) smooth, soft tones (d) lines crossing over
11. 11.Which of these is called stippling? (a) many parallel lines (b) lots of tiny dots (c) smudging with a finger (d) smooth, soft tones
12. 12.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “sharp and dangerous”? (a) diagonal lines (b) curved lines (c) horizontal lines (d) zigzag lines
13. 13.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) the part nearest you (b) things that look biggest (c) the part in between (d) the bottom of the page
14. 14.🖌️ Is standing on its bristles good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
15. 15.True or false: a square is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: ocean waves looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.📏 Draw the edge of a calm sea with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
18. 18.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter H stand for? (a) hard (b) heavy (c) hot (d) high
19. 19.📏 Draw a leaning ladder with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
20. 20.True or false: “gaps between things” is the element called space. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) B (b) H (c) HB (d) 2H
22. 22.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the background. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) texture (b) value (c) shape (d) colour
24. 24.What do we use masking tape for? (a) holding paper flat (b) holding a board upright (c) dabbing soft textures (d) rinsing brushes
25. 25.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
26. 26.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows less detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
27. 27.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) closer to you (b) taller (c) farther away (d) younger
28. 28.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) things that look biggest (b) the part nearest you (c) the bottom of the page (d) the top of the scene
29. 29.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) zigzag line
30. 30.Which of these is called blending? (a) criss-cross lines (b) many parallel lines (c) dots packed close (d) smooth, soft tones
31. 31.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) where light hits most (b) the darker half of it (c) the dark shape it throws (d) the side away from light
32. 32.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) stippling
33. 33.Which of these is good brush care? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) rinsing between colours (c) standing on its bristles (d) leaving it in water
34. 34.True or false: shading with criss-cross lines is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
36. 36.True or false: we use masking tape for holding a board upright. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of a pencil. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: a sleeping person is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: we use a sponge for dabbing soft textures. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal

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