Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 547 · 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 tells how light or dark something is? (a) texture (b) line (c) shape (d) value
2. 2.What do we use a flat brush for? (a) giving a pencil a point (b) wide, straight strokes (c) rinsing brushes (d) dabbing soft textures
3. 3.True or false: the edge of a calm sea is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.True or false: light grey has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called hatching. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
7. 7.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) pencil (b) poster colour (c) charcoal (d) watercolour
8. 8.Which of these is the element called form? (a) gaps between things (b) looks furry or scaly (c) can be seen all round (d) a sense of near and far
9. 9.✏️ Which pencil is harder: 4H or 2H? (a) 4H (b) 2H
10. 10.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) things that look biggest (b) the bottom of the page (c) far hills and the sky (d) the part nearest you
11. 11.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) ocean waves (b) a cut-here line (c) a ruler’s edge (d) a flag in the wind
12. 12.True or false: reshaping the tip is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: letting paint dry on it is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
15. 15.Which of these is good brush care? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) standing on its bristles (c) leaving it in water (d) rinsing between colours
16. 16.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a leaning ladder (c) the edge of a calm sea (d) a falling tree
17. 17.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a sleeping person (c) a person standing tall (d) a playground slide
18. 18.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part in between? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
19. 19.True or false: shading with smudging with a finger is called blending. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧊 Which 3D form is a party hat shaped like? (a) cone (b) cylinder (c) sphere (d) cube
21. 21.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter B stand for? (a) big (b) black (c) brown (d) blue
22. 22.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) light first outlines (b) blend with a fingertip (c) grey lines for sketching (d) see-through colour
23. 23.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) ocean waves (b) the teeth of a saw (c) a laser beam (d) a flag in the wind
24. 24.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) 2B (b) HB
25. 25.True or false: on a shaded ball, its shadow on the table is called the cast shadow. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🧰 Which art tool do we use for rinsing brushes? (a) round brush (b) easel (c) water pot (d) palette
27. 27.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the cast shadow. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.📏 What kind of line does a ruler’s edge look like? (a) spiral line (b) dotted or broken line (c) wavy line (d) straight line
30. 30.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 2B (b) 6B
31. 31.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “proud and steady”? (a) horizontal lines (b) zigzag lines (c) vertical lines (d) diagonal lines
32. 32.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
33. 33.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called space. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: pencil grade H makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
36. 36.📏 What kind of line does ocean waves look like? (a) zigzag line (b) spiral line (c) wavy line (d) straight line
37. 37.True or false: “gaps between things” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) light first outlines (b) bright, flat colour (c) soft, light washes (d) mixed with lots of water
39. 39.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 4B (b) 2B (c) 2H (d) HB
40. 40.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) dashes on a road (c) a coiled rope (d) a flag in the wind

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