Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 548 · 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.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a zigzag line (b) a straight line (c) a dotted line (d) a wavy line
2. 2.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a straight line (b) a dotted line (c) a zigzag (d) a spiral
3. 3.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) pencil (b) wax crayons (c) watercolour (d) poster colour
5. 5.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
6. 6.🧱 Which element of art is “from white to black”? (a) value (b) space (c) line (d) colour
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) standing on its bristles (b) leaving it in water (c) reshaping the tip (d) letting paint dry on it
8. 8.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) diagonal lines (b) zigzag lines (c) horizontal lines (d) curved lines
9. 9.True or false: the edge of a calm sea is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) border (c) vanishing point (d) foreground
11. 11.True or false: “how light or dark it is” is the element called value. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) texture (b) value (c) space (d) shape
13. 13.True or false: a triangle is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
15. 15.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) texture (b) form (c) line (d) colour
16. 16.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) zigzag line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) spiral line
17. 17.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 4B (b) 6B (c) HB (d) H
18. 18.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) poster colour (b) watercolour (c) oil pastels (d) wax crayons
19. 19.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) hatching (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) blending
20. 20.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4B (b) 2H (c) B (d) 6B
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cone (b) star (c) triangle (d) square
22. 22.True or false: “bright, flat colour” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
24. 24.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) star (b) circle (c) cuboid (d) rectangle
25. 25.True or false: in a landscape picture, the top of the scene is the background. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) shape (b) form (c) colour (d) texture
27. 27.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🧊 Which 3D form is a shoe box shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cone (c) cuboid (d) sphere
29. 29.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) frame (b) value (c) texture (d) line
30. 30.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) texture (b) value (c) line (d) space
31. 31.🍃 Is a square a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
32. 32.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a water pipe (b) a globe (c) a matchbox (d) a dice
33. 33.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) many parallel lines (b) lines all one way (c) lots of tiny dots (d) lines crossing over
34. 34.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a wavy line. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a solid 3D object (b) a moving dot’s path (c) has height, width, depth (d) what a rainbow shows
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cylinder (b) cube (c) star (d) pyramid
37. 37.True or false: on a shaded ball, the darker half of it is called the cast shadow. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: a cone is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: an object that shows more detail seems far away. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called form. (a) False (b) True

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