Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 463 · 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.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) do not smudge easily (b) soft, light washes (c) bright, flat colour (d) mixed with lots of water
2. 2.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) poster colour (b) pencil (c) wax crayons (d) watercolour
3. 3.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) a flat 2D area (b) a sense of near and far (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) looks furry or scaly
4. 4.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) reshaping the tip (c) washing with mild soap (d) rinsing between colours
6. 6.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) easel (b) form (c) line (d) value
7. 7.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a playground slide (b) a falling tree (c) a person standing tall (d) a leaning ladder
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) washing with mild soap (b) drying bristles up (c) rinsing between colours (d) scrubbing hard on paper
9. 9.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) shows more detail (c) looks paler and bluer (d) looks bigger
10. 10.✏️ Which pencil is softer: 4B or 2B? (a) 2B (b) 4B
11. 11.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) shows less detail (b) sits lower on the page (c) shows more detail (d) overlaps other things
13. 13.📏 What kind of line does the teeth of a saw look like? (a) zigzag line (b) dotted or broken line (c) spiral line (d) wavy line
14. 14.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) vanishing point (c) border (d) foreground
15. 15.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) HB (b) 4H (c) H (d) 6B
16. 16.⬜⬛ Does cream have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks bigger (b) sits near the horizon (c) sits lower on the page (d) overlaps other things
18. 18.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a long, thin mark (b) a sense of near and far (c) gaps between things (d) only length and width
19. 19.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) rinsing between colours (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) washing with mild soap (d) drying bristles up
20. 20.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) space (b) line (c) value (d) texture
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks bigger (b) overlaps other things (c) looks smaller (d) shows more detail
22. 22.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) shape (b) colour (c) line (d) space
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) star (b) cuboid (c) square (d) rectangle
24. 24.True or false: a hexagon is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks bigger seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
26. 26.True or false: a cuboid is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) hatching (d) stippling
28. 28.Which of these is called blending? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) many parallel lines (c) criss-cross lines (d) dots packed close
29. 29.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) a wriggling snake (c) dashes on a road (d) a lightning bolt
30. 30.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) things that look biggest (b) the part in between (c) the top of the scene (d) the bottom of the page
32. 32.True or false: “rough, smooth or bumpy” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
34. 34.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) pencil (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) charcoal
35. 35.True or false: light grey has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🧱 Which element of art is “what a rainbow shows”? (a) form (b) texture (c) colour (d) value
37. 37.🧊 Which 3D form is a matchbox shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cube (c) cuboid (d) sphere
38. 38.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) H (c) 2B (d) B
39. 39.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
40. 40.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) hatching (d) stippling

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