Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 573 · 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.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
2. 2.Which of these is the element called form? (a) only length and width (b) a solid 3D object (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) how a surface feels
3. 3.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) soft, light washes (c) bright, flat colour (d) hard, waxy sticks
4. 4.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a sponge (b) a big roller (c) a small round brush (d) a wide flat brush
5. 5.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) form (b) space (c) shape (d) value
6. 6.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
7. 7.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) hatching (b) stippling (c) blending (d) cross-hatching
8. 8.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) oil pastels (b) watercolour (c) pencil (d) wax crayons
9. 9.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) charcoal (b) watercolour (c) pencil (d) poster colour
10. 10.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) line (b) shape (c) value (d) texture
11. 11.True or false: scrubbing hard on paper is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) cross-hatching (b) hatching (c) blending (d) stippling
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) letting paint dry on it (d) leaving it in water
14. 14.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) see-through colour (b) mixed with lots of water (c) grey lines for sketching (d) thick, opaque paint
15. 15.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
16. 16.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called stippling. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
18. 18.🧱 Which element of art is “looks furry or scaly”? (a) shape (b) texture (c) space (d) line
19. 19.🔭 In a picture, an object that is partly hidden seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
20. 20.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
21. 21.What do we use masking tape for? (a) fine lines and details (b) mixing colours (c) holding paper flat (d) dabbing soft textures
22. 22.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
23. 23.True or false: an object that looks paler and bluer seems far away. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🍃 Is a flower petal a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
25. 25.💡 The light comes from the RIGHT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) on the left side (b) above the object (c) inside the object (d) on the right side
26. 26.True or false: a snail shell looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: we use a flat brush for mixing colours. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) the teeth of a saw (b) a flag in the wind (c) a ruler’s edge (d) dashes on a road
29. 29.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
30. 30.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the top of the scene? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
31. 31.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) 2B (b) HB
32. 32.What do we use a water pot for? (a) fine lines and details (b) giving a pencil a point (c) wide, straight strokes (d) rinsing brushes
33. 33.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) easel (b) form (c) line (d) value
34. 34.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) in the water pot (b) bristles down (c) with paint on it (d) bristles up or flat
35. 35.True or false: “hard, waxy sticks” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) pyramid (b) cone (c) sphere (d) square
37. 37.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) pencil (b) poster colour (c) wax crayons (d) oil pastels
38. 38.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) wavy line (c) zigzag line (d) spiral line
39. 39.True or false: standing on its bristles is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called hatching. (a) True (b) False

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