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.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 2.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
- 3.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a snail shell (b) a row of pointy peaks (c) a cut-here line (d) a tightly pulled rope
- 4.Which of these is called blending? (a) lots of tiny dots (b) lines crossing over (c) many parallel lines (d) smooth, soft tones
- 5.True or false: drying bristles up is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🖌️ Is standing on its bristles good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 7.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cylinder (b) cuboid (c) oval (d) cone
- 8.💡 The light comes from the LEFT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) on the left side (b) on the right side (c) above the object (d) inside the object
- 9.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a lightning bolt (b) ocean waves (c) dashes on a road (d) the teeth of a saw
- 10.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) cube (b) cone (c) sphere (d) square
- 11.What do we use a water pot for? (a) rinsing brushes (b) mixing colours (c) dabbing soft textures (d) wide, straight strokes
- 12.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 13.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a sense of near and far (b) how a surface feels (c) what a rainbow shows (d) a long, thin mark
- 14.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “falling or sliding”? (a) vertical lines (b) diagonal lines (c) curved lines (d) horizontal lines
- 15.📏 Draw a leaning ladder with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 16.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) easel (c) value (d) form
- 17.Which of these is called blending? (a) smudging with a finger (b) lines crossing over (c) many parallel lines (d) lots of tiny dots
- 18.Which of these is called hatching? (a) criss-cross lines (b) many parallel lines (c) lots of tiny dots (d) smudging with a finger
- 19.🧊 Which 3D form is a marble shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) cube (c) cylinder (d) sphere
- 20.📐 Is a sphere a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 21.True or false: we use a palette for mixing colours. (a) True (b) False
- 22.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) watercolour (b) wax crayons (c) poster colour (d) oil pastels
- 24.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a shoe box (b) a party hat (c) an ice-cream cone (d) a traffic cone
- 25.🧰 Which art tool do we use for giving a pencil a point? (a) water pot (b) sponge (c) sharpener (d) round brush
- 26.True or false: an object that shows less detail seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 27.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a closed flat outline (b) a hue, like red or blue (c) has height, width, depth (d) a long, thin mark
- 28.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 29.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) looks smaller (b) shows less detail (c) shows more detail (d) is partly hidden
- 30.True or false: white has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 31.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 33.📏 What kind of line does a lightning bolt look like? (a) straight line (b) wavy line (c) zigzag line (d) spiral line
- 34.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) texture (c) frame (d) line
- 35.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 36.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a shape (b) a cube (c) a sculpture (d) a form
- 37.📏 What kind of line does the teeth of a saw look like? (a) straight line (b) wavy line (c) zigzag line (d) spiral line
- 38.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 39.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “do not smudge easily”? (a) watercolour (b) wax crayons (c) oil pastels (d) pencil
- 40.True or false: a triangle is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- 2
- True
- a cut-here line
- smooth, soft tones
- False
- bad for the brush
- oval
- on the right side
- ocean waves
- sphere
- rinsing brushes
- True
- a long, thin mark
- diagonal lines
- diagonal
- easel
- smudging with a finger
- many parallel lines
- sphere
- a 3D form
- True
- True
- watercolour
- a shoe box
- sharpener
- True
- a hue, like red or blue
- bad for the brush
- shows more detail
- False
- False
- 7
- zigzag line
- frame
- good brush care
- a shape
- zigzag line
- diagonal
- wax crayons
- False
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