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.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) water and mild soap (b) sand (c) glue (d) hot oil
- 2.🖼️ In the rule of thirds, where should the main subject go? (a) off the page (b) where the lines cross (c) at the very edge (d) in a corner
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) is partly hidden (b) looks smaller (c) sits near the horizon (d) looks bigger
- 4.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 5.📏 What kind of line does a jalebi look like? (a) straight line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) dotted or broken line
- 6.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) B (b) 4H (c) 4B (d) HB
- 7.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) leaving it in water (b) drying bristles up (c) reshaping the tip (d) washing with mild soap
- 8.True or false: stitches on cloth looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 9.True or false: an object that shows more detail seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 10.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) sphere (b) triangle (c) pyramid (d) cylinder
- 11.🖌️ Is washing with mild soap good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 12.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “moving fast”? (a) zigzag lines (b) horizontal lines (c) diagonal lines (d) vertical lines
- 13.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 14.✏️ Which pencil makes lighter lines: HB or 2H? (a) 2H (b) HB
- 15.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) blending
- 16.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) lots of tiny dots (b) smudging with a finger (c) criss-cross lines (d) smooth, soft tones
- 17.💡 On a shaded ball, what is where light hits most called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 18.True or false: a table top is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
- 19.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) cast shadow (b) highlight (c) shadow side
- 20.What do we use a round brush for? (a) mixing colours (b) holding paper flat (c) fine lines and details (d) wide, straight strokes
- 21.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a dotted line (b) a straight line (c) a zigzag (d) a spiral
- 22.True or false: a playground slide is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 23.True or false: on a shaded ball, the brightest spot is called the cast shadow. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) wax crayons (b) pencil (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
- 25.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) zigzag line (b) spiral line (c) dotted or broken line (d) straight line
- 26.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) mixed with lots of water (c) bright, flat colour (d) hard, waxy sticks
- 27.What do we use a flat brush for? (a) mixing colours (b) fine lines and details (c) wide, straight strokes (d) giving a pencil a point
- 28.True or false: “has height, width, depth” is the element called line. (a) True (b) False
- 29.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) soft, light washes (c) grey lines for sketching (d) bright, flat colour
- 30.True or false: a falling tree is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rectangle (b) circle (c) star (d) sphere
- 32.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 33.True or false: an object that looks bigger seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 34.True or false: a table top is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 35.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 36.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cube (b) cylinder (c) pyramid (d) rectangle
- 37.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) see-through colour (b) bright, flat colour (c) grey lines for sketching (d) mixed with lots of water
- 38.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cuboid (b) pyramid (c) sphere (d) oval
- 39.🧰 Which art tool do we use for rinsing brushes? (a) sharpener (b) water pot (c) masking tape (d) round brush
- 40.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) square (b) cone (c) cube (d) sphere
Answer key
- water and mild soap
- where the lines cross
- looks bigger
- False
- spiral line
- 4H
- leaving it in water
- True
- True
- triangle
- good brush care
- diagonal lines
- bad for the brush
- 2H
- hatching
- criss-cross lines
- highlight
- False
- highlight
- fine lines and details
- a spiral
- True
- False
- watercolour
- spiral line
- soft, creamy sticks
- wide, straight strokes
- False
- soft, light washes
- False
- sphere
- horizontal
- True
- True
- hard, light marks
- rectangle
- bright, flat colour
- oval
- water pot
- sphere
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