Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 515 · 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 element of art is “from white to black”? (a) texture (b) value (c) colour (d) line
2. 2.True or false: drying bristles up is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) charcoal (b) pencil (c) watercolour (d) poster colour
4. 4.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
5. 5.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a long, thin mark (b) a hue, like red or blue (c) what a rainbow shows (d) has height, width, depth
6. 6.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) wax crayons (b) watercolour (c) oil pastels (d) poster colour
7. 7.True or false: shading with lots of tiny dots is called hatching. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) zigzag line (b) spiral line (c) wavy line (d) straight line
10. 10.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows less detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
11. 11.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) colour (b) texture (c) line (d) space
12. 12.🧱 Which element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) line (b) form (c) space (d) value
13. 13.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) texture (b) colour (c) shape (d) space
14. 14.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
15. 15.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a playground slide (b) a person standing tall (c) a table top (d) a tall lamp post
16. 16.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) rinsing brushes (b) mixing colours (c) giving a pencil a point (d) holding a board upright
17. 17.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) blending (b) stippling (c) cross-hatching (d) hatching
19. 19.True or false: a circle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) colour (c) glue (d) space
21. 21.True or false: a puddle is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a zigzag (b) a straight line (c) a spiral (d) a dotted line
24. 24.True or false: rinsing between colours is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: “do not smudge easily” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “still and peaceful”? (a) horizontal lines (b) vertical lines (c) zigzag lines (d) curved lines
27. 27.📐 Is a star a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
28. 28.True or false: an object that looks smaller seems far away. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.📐 Is an oval a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
30. 30.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
31. 31.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
32. 32.True or false: pencil grade 2B makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
34. 34.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a person standing tall (c) a leaning ladder (d) a table top
35. 35.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a lightning bolt (b) a flag in the wind (c) a snail shell (d) a laser beam
36. 36.True or false: on a shaded ball, the darker half of it is called the shadow side. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) circle (b) cube (c) cylinder (d) cuboid
39. 39.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
40. 40.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the foreground. (a) False (b) True

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