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) hot oil (b) glue (c) sand (d) water and mild soap
- 2.🧊 Which 3D form is a shoe box shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cuboid (c) sphere (d) cube
- 3.Which of these is the element called line? (a) what a rainbow shows (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) a solid 3D object (d) a moving dot’s path
- 4.What do we use a round brush for? (a) fine lines and details (b) mixing colours (c) wide, straight strokes (d) dabbing soft textures
- 5.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) colour (c) space (d) glue
- 7.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 8.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
- 9.Which of these is good brush care? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) leaving it in water (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) rinsing between colours
- 10.🧰 Which art tool do we use for rinsing brushes? (a) water pot (b) flat brush (c) easel (d) sponge
- 11.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 12.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 13.✏️ Which pencil is softer: 4B or 2B? (a) 2B (b) 4B
- 14.True or false: we use a water pot for wide, straight strokes. (a) False (b) True
- 15.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “proud and steady”? (a) zigzag lines (b) horizontal lines (c) vertical lines (d) diagonal lines
- 16.True or false: a sphere is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: standing on its bristles is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 18.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 19.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 20.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 21.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the highlight. (a) True (b) False
- 22.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “sharp and dangerous”? (a) horizontal lines (b) zigzag lines (c) diagonal lines (d) vertical lines
- 23.🍃 Is a square a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 24.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) zigzag line (b) straight line (c) wavy line (d) dotted or broken line
- 25.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “moving fast”? (a) zigzag lines (b) horizontal lines (c) vertical lines (d) diagonal lines
- 26.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 27.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) square (b) sphere (c) cube (d) cone
- 28.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) a long, thin mark (c) from white to black (d) can be seen all round
- 29.True or false: white has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 30.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) letting paint dry on it (c) leaving it in water (d) washing with mild soap
- 31.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) oil pastels
- 32.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
- 33.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) shape (b) colour (c) space (d) value
- 34.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) rectangle (b) cylinder (c) cube (d) cone
- 35.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a wriggling snake (b) the teeth of a saw (c) a tightly pulled rope (d) a jalebi
- 36.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) a solid 3D object (b) a long, thin mark (c) from white to black (d) looks furry or scaly
- 37.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) line (b) space (c) texture (d) value
- 38.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part nearest you (b) far hills and the sky (c) the part farthest away (d) the top of the scene
- 39.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a spiral (b) a straight line (c) a zigzag (d) a dotted line
- 40.📏 What kind of line does a laser beam look like? (a) spiral line (b) wavy line (c) straight line (d) dotted or broken line
Answer key
- water and mild soap
- cuboid
- a moving dot’s path
- fine lines and details
- True
- glue
- geometric shape
- True
- rinsing between colours
- water pot
- 7
- diagonal
- 4B
- False
- vertical lines
- False
- False
- soft, dark marks
- geometric shape
- hard, light marks
- False
- zigzag lines
- geometric shape
- dotted or broken line
- diagonal lines
- 12
- sphere
- rough, smooth or bumpy
- False
- washing with mild soap
- watercolour
- 4
- space
- rectangle
- a jalebi
- looks furry or scaly
- texture
- the part nearest you
- a spiral
- straight line
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