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) sand (b) hot oil (c) water and mild soap (d) glue
- 2.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) blend with a fingertip (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) mixed with lots of water (d) see-through colour
- 3.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) elbows (b) eyes (c) feet (d) knees
- 4.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a traffic cone (b) a football (c) a matchbox (d) a sugar cube
- 5.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) light first outlines (c) soft, light washes (d) bright, flat colour
- 6.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) watercolour (b) oil pastels (c) poster colour (d) wax crayons
- 7.Which of these is called hatching? (a) dots packed close (b) many parallel lines (c) criss-cross lines (d) smudging with a finger
- 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) square (b) cylinder (c) triangle (d) rectangle
- 9.True or false: drying bristles up is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 10.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 11.True or false: a triangle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 12.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) overlaps other things (b) shows less detail (c) looks smaller (d) is partly hidden
- 13.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a straight line (b) a spiral (c) a dotted line (d) a zigzag
- 14.🖌️ Is letting paint dry on it good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 15.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 16.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 17.True or false: “a flat 2D area” is the element called form. (a) False (b) True
- 18.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 2B (b) 6B
- 19.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) drying bristles up (b) rinsing between colours (c) reshaping the tip (d) leaving it in water
- 20.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a wide flat brush (b) a sponge (c) a big roller (d) a small round brush
- 21.True or false: a hexagon is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows more detail (b) overlaps other things (c) shows less detail (d) sits lower on the page
- 23.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a globe (b) a party hat (c) a shoe box (d) a football
- 24.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) easel (b) form (c) line (d) value
- 25.📐 Is a sphere a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 26.True or false: an object that shows more detail seems far away. (a) True (b) False
- 27.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a standing tree trunk (b) a table top (c) a person standing tall (d) a falling tree
- 28.True or false: an object that looks paler and bluer seems far away. (a) True (b) False
- 29.True or false: we use a water pot for giving a pencil a point. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: a circle is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
- 31.True or false: in a landscape picture, the top of the scene is the background. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part in between? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
- 33.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) space (b) shape (c) colour (d) glue
- 34.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
- 35.🧊 How many flat faces does a cube have?
- 36.📐 Is a circle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 37.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) shows more detail (b) shows less detail (c) overlaps other things (d) looks bigger
- 38.🖼️ In the rule of thirds, where should the main subject go? (a) in a corner (b) off the page (c) at the very edge (d) where the lines cross
- 39.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) ocean waves (b) a tightly pulled rope (c) a cut-here line (d) a jalebi
- 40.What do we use an easel for? (a) mixing colours (b) holding paper flat (c) holding a board upright (d) dabbing soft textures
Answer key
- water and mild soap
- hard, waxy sticks
- eyes
- a football
- light first outlines
- watercolour
- many parallel lines
- cylinder
- False
- medium marks
- False
- overlaps other things
- a spiral
- bad for the brush
- dark value
- 7
- False
- 6B
- leaving it in water
- a small round brush
- True
- shows less detail
- a party hat
- easel
- a 3D form
- False
- a falling tree
- True
- False
- False
- True
- middle ground
- glue
- foreground
- 6
- a 2D shape
- shows less detail
- where the lines cross
- a cut-here line
- holding a board upright
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