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.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a flat outline (b) a 3D form (c) a 2D shape
- 2.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) line (b) space (c) colour (d) shape
- 3.📐 Is a cylinder a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 4.True or false: a playground slide is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
- 5.✏️ Which side of a ball facing a lamp is the lightest? (a) the side facing the lamp (b) the bottom (c) the side away from it
- 6.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) bright, flat colour (c) light first outlines (d) mixed with lots of water
- 7.True or false: a table top is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: a leaf is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
- 9.What do we use a round brush for? (a) mixing colours (b) rinsing brushes (c) fine lines and details (d) holding paper flat
- 10.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) space (b) value (c) line (d) texture
- 11.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a jalebi (b) a lightning bolt (c) a ruler’s edge (d) stitches on cloth
- 12.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter B stand for? (a) blue (b) black (c) big (d) brown
- 13.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 14.Which of these is the element called form? (a) from white to black (b) a moving dot’s path (c) can be seen all round (d) only length and width
- 15.📐 Is a cuboid a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 16.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) gaps between things (b) a flat 2D area (c) a moving dot’s path (d) from white to black
- 17.True or false: a snail shell looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 18.Which of these is good brush care? (a) drying bristles up (b) letting paint dry on it (c) leaving it in water (d) standing on its bristles
- 19.True or false: a hexagon is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
- 20.💡 On a shaded ball, what is where light hits most called? (a) shadow side (b) highlight (c) cast shadow
- 21.True or false: a lightning bolt looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 22.True or false: pencil grade HB makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 23.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) stitches on cloth (b) a wriggling snake (c) ocean waves (d) a jalebi
- 24.True or false: “hard, waxy sticks” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) True (b) False
- 25.True or false: a square is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 27.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the highlight. (a) False (b) True
- 28.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 29.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) value (c) texture (d) frame
- 30.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 31.🖌️ Is standing on its bristles good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 32.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part in between (b) the bottom of the page (c) far hills and the sky (d) the part farthest away
- 33.📏 What kind of line does dashes on a road look like? (a) straight line (b) dotted or broken line (c) zigzag line (d) wavy line
- 34.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of poster colour. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: a cone is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cylinder (b) sphere (c) rectangle (d) cone
- 37.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) sand (b) hot oil (c) glue (d) water and mild soap
- 39.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a snail shell (b) stitches on cloth (c) ocean waves (d) a row of pointy peaks
- 40.Which of these is called hatching? (a) smudging with a finger (b) lines all one way (c) lines crossing over (d) criss-cross lines
Answer key
- a 3D form
- colour
- a 3D form
- False
- the side facing the lamp
- mixed with lots of water
- False
- False
- fine lines and details
- texture
- a lightning bolt
- black
- 7
- can be seen all round
- a 3D form
- a flat 2D area
- True
- drying bristles up
- False
- highlight
- True
- False
- stitches on cloth
- False
- True
- organic shape
- False
- vertical
- frame
- dark value
- bad for the brush
- the bottom of the page
- dotted or broken line
- False
- False
- rectangle
- False
- water and mild soap
- a row of pointy peaks
- lines all one way
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