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.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) palette (b) sharpener (c) sponge (d) easel
- 2.True or false: washing with mild soap is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 3.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a football (b) a party hat (c) a candle (d) a sugar cube
- 4.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a playground slide (b) the edge of a calm sea (c) a standing tree trunk (d) a sleeping person
- 5.Which of these is the element called line? (a) has height, width, depth (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) what a rainbow shows (d) a moving dot’s path
- 6.True or false: “soft, creamy sticks” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 8.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
- 9.True or false: rinsing between colours is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 10.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 11.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part farthest away (b) the part nearest you (c) the part in between (d) far hills and the sky
- 12.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 13.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 14.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 15.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a closed flat outline (b) only length and width (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) has height, width, depth
- 16.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 19.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks bigger seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 20.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form (c) a flat outline
- 21.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) blending (b) stippling (c) cross-hatching (d) hatching
- 22.🖌️ 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
- 23.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, light washes”? (a) pencil (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) wax crayons
- 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows less detail (b) shows more detail (c) looks smaller (d) is partly hidden
- 25.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the top of the scene? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
- 26.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) False (b) True
- 27.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a sleeping person (b) a playground slide (c) a table top (d) a person standing tall
- 28.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) value (b) texture (c) shape (d) line
- 29.True or false: leaving it in water is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 30.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
- 31.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part in between (b) the top of the scene (c) the bottom of the page (d) the part farthest away
- 32.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) watercolour (b) wax crayons (c) pencil (d) poster colour
- 33.📐 Is a cylinder a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 34.True or false: a rectangle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 35.⬜⬛ Does black have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 36.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 37.🍃 Is a hexagon a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 38.Which of these is called stippling? (a) lines all one way (b) dots packed close (c) criss-cross lines (d) smudging with a finger
- 39.True or false: pencil grade HB makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) drying bristles up (c) rinsing between colours (d) letting paint dry on it
Answer key
- palette
- False
- a party hat
- a standing tree trunk
- a moving dot’s path
- False
- bad for the brush
- False
- False
- vertical
- the part nearest you
- cast shadow
- 9
- light value
- a hue, like red or blue
- False
- True
- 7
- near the viewer
- a 3D form
- cross-hatching
- a small round brush
- watercolour
- shows more detail
- background
- False
- a playground slide
- texture
- True
- highlight
- the bottom of the page
- wax crayons
- a 3D form
- False
- dark value
- 2
- geometric shape
- dots packed close
- False
- letting paint dry on it
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