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 we use a flat brush for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) rinsing brushes (c) dabbing soft textures (d) mixing colours
- 2.🧊 Which 3D form is a party hat shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cone (c) cuboid (d) cube
- 3.True or false: we use a water pot for holding a board upright. (a) False (b) True
- 4.True or false: dashes on a road looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
- 5.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a snail shell (b) dashes on a road (c) a row of pointy peaks (d) stitches on cloth
- 6.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) H (b) B (c) 6B (d) HB
- 7.🍃 Is a paint splash a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 8.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a closed flat outline (b) what a rainbow shows (c) how a surface feels (d) a moving dot’s path
- 9.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 10.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a form (b) a sculpture (c) a cube (d) a shape
- 11.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a falling tree (b) the edge of a calm sea (c) a standing tree trunk (d) a table top
- 12.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 13.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) letting paint dry on it (c) standing on its bristles (d) washing with mild soap
- 14.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 15.📏 Draw a tall lamp post with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
- 16.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) value (b) space (c) line (d) form
- 17.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 6B (b) 2B
- 18.True or false: a wriggling snake looks like a wavy line. (a) False (b) True
- 19.📏 What kind of line does a ruler’s edge look like? (a) zigzag line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) straight line
- 20.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 21.🔭 In a picture, an object that overlaps other things seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 22.True or false: a flower petal is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
- 23.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) square (b) triangle (c) rectangle (d) sphere
- 24.True or false: a tall lamp post is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) easel (b) masking tape (c) flat brush (d) palette
- 26.Which of these is called hatching? (a) many parallel lines (b) criss-cross lines (c) lots of tiny dots (d) dots packed close
- 27.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) hatching (b) stippling (c) cross-hatching (d) blending
- 28.✏️ Which shading method uses dots packed close? (a) hatching (b) cross-hatching (c) blending (d) stippling
- 29.True or false: scrubbing hard on paper is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 30.True or false: rinsing between colours is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 31.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
- 32.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) cross-hatching (b) hatching (c) stippling (d) blending
- 33.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 34.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a playground slide (c) a tall lamp post (d) a leaning ladder
- 35.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 36.📏 What kind of line does a tightly pulled rope look like? (a) straight line (b) zigzag line (c) dotted or broken line (d) spiral line
- 37.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) younger (b) closer to you (c) farther away (d) taller
- 38.🧰 Which art tool do we use for giving a pencil a point? (a) sponge (b) water pot (c) sharpener (d) easel
- 39.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4H (b) 4B (c) B (d) HB
- 40.True or false: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- wide, straight strokes
- cone
- False
- False
- a snail shell
- H
- organic shape
- a moving dot’s path
- diagonal
- a shape
- a falling tree
- medium marks
- washing with mild soap
- True
- vertical
- space
- 6B
- True
- straight line
- 9
- near the viewer
- False
- sphere
- False
- masking tape
- many parallel lines
- hatching
- stippling
- False
- False
- True
- stippling
- geometric shape
- a tall lamp post
- 7
- straight line
- farther away
- sharpener
- 4H
- True
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