Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 543 · 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 “the area around objects”? (a) shape (b) form (c) space (d) texture
2. 2.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) the part nearest you (b) things that look biggest (c) the part in between (d) the bottom of the page
4. 4.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a cut-here line (b) a lightning bolt (c) a coiled rope (d) a laser beam
5. 5.True or false: “from white to black” is the element called value. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) texture (b) line (c) frame (d) value
7. 7.True or false: a circle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
9. 9.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
10. 10.📏 What kind of line does stitches on cloth look like? (a) zigzag line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) wavy line
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks bigger (b) sits near the horizon (c) looks smaller (d) looks paler and bluer
12. 12.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) has height, width, depth (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) a moving dot’s path (d) can be seen all round
13. 13.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
14. 14.🧱 Which element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) form (b) texture (c) shape (d) colour
15. 15.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a wriggling snake (b) a row of pointy peaks (c) ocean waves (d) a snail shell
17. 17.True or false: an object that is partly hidden seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧱 Which element of art is “what a rainbow shows”? (a) line (b) form (c) shape (d) colour
19. 19.🖌️ Is drying bristles up good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
20. 20.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called form. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: a cone is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) wavy line (b) zigzag line (c) straight line (d) dotted or broken line
23. 23.True or false: “a hue, like red or blue” is the element called line. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
25. 25.True or false: “how a surface feels” is the element called colour. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 2B (b) HB (c) B (d) 4H
27. 27.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
28. 28.True or false: an object that sits near the horizon seems far away. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
30. 30.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
31. 31.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a spiral (b) a zigzag (c) a straight line (d) a dotted line
32. 32.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) younger (b) taller (c) farther away (d) closer to you
33. 33.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) value (b) space (c) texture (d) line
34. 34.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
35. 35.Which of these is the element called value? (a) gaps between things (b) a closed flat outline (c) from white to black (d) only length and width
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) rinsing between colours (c) letting paint dry on it (d) leaving it in water
37. 37.📏 What kind of line does a snail shell look like? (a) spiral line (b) zigzag line (c) wavy line (d) dotted or broken line
38. 38.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) square (b) cone (c) sphere (d) cube
39. 39.True or false: navy blue has a light value. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: a paint splash is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True

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