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.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 2.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) rinsing between colours (b) reshaping the tip (c) standing on its bristles (d) drying bristles up
- 3.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) water pot (b) flat brush (c) round brush (d) palette
- 4.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 6B (b) 2B
- 5.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 6.True or false: an object that looks smaller seems far away. (a) True (b) False
- 7.True or false: shading with smudging with a finger is called blending. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called cross-hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a big roller (b) a sponge (c) a wide flat brush (d) a small round brush
- 10.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 11.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) sphere (b) cube (c) square (d) cone
- 12.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
- 13.⚽ How many flat faces does a sphere have?
- 14.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) standing on its bristles (c) leaving it in water (d) reshaping the tip
- 15.🔭 In a picture, an object that overlaps other things seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 16.True or false: navy blue has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
- 17.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) line (b) value (c) texture (d) shape
- 18.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called stippling. (a) True (b) False
- 19.📐 Is a square a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 20.True or false: standing on its bristles is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 21.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) leaving it in water (c) drying bristles up (d) letting paint dry on it
- 22.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) hatching
- 23.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 24.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) a closed flat outline (c) what a rainbow shows (d) gaps between things
- 25.True or false: “a closed flat outline” is the element called line. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) reshaping the tip (c) leaving it in water (d) washing with mild soap
- 27.What do we use masking tape for? (a) rinsing brushes (b) holding paper flat (c) giving a pencil a point (d) dabbing soft textures
- 28.True or false: pencil grade HB makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 29.🧊 Which 3D form is a dice shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cube (c) cuboid (d) sphere
- 30.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 2H (b) 6B (c) H (d) HB
- 31.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) leaving it in water (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) letting paint dry on it (d) reshaping the tip
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) triangle (b) cone (c) sphere (d) cuboid
- 34.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 35.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) rinsing between colours (b) washing with mild soap (c) drying bristles up (d) leaving it in water
- 36.⬜⬛ Does dark brown have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 37.Which of these is called hatching? (a) lots of tiny dots (b) smudging with a finger (c) many parallel lines (d) criss-cross lines
- 38.🧰 Which art tool do we use for fine lines and details? (a) sponge (b) sharpener (c) round brush (d) masking tape
- 39.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 40.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the top of the scene (b) the part in between (c) the bottom of the page (d) the part farthest away
Answer key
- 7
- standing on its bristles
- palette
- 6B
- hard, light marks
- True
- True
- True
- a small round brush
- False
- sphere
- background
- 0
- reshaping the tip
- near the viewer
- True
- value
- True
- a 2D shape
- False
- drying bristles up
- hatching
- True
- what a rainbow shows
- False
- leaving it in water
- holding paper flat
- False
- cube
- 6B
- 2
- reshaping the tip
- triangle
- 8
- leaving it in water
- dark value
- many parallel lines
- round brush
- soft, dark marks
- the bottom of the page
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