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.True or false: on a shaded ball, its shadow on the table is called the highlight. (a) True (b) False
- 2.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a sculpture (b) a shape (c) a form (d) a cube
- 3.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) younger (b) farther away (c) closer to you (d) taller
- 4.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) mixing colours (b) giving a pencil a point (c) rinsing brushes (d) holding a board upright
- 5.Which of these is the element called line? (a) the area around objects (b) what a rainbow shows (c) a moving dot’s path (d) has height, width, depth
- 6.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) space (b) texture (c) line (d) form
- 7.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) space (d) texture
- 8.True or false: a sleeping person is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) texture (b) shape (c) value (d) line
- 10.Which of these is called blending? (a) many parallel lines (b) lines all one way (c) lots of tiny dots (d) smooth, soft tones
- 11.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a lightning bolt (b) a wriggling snake (c) a flag in the wind (d) a snail shell
- 12.🧊 Which 3D form is a party hat shaped like? (a) cube (b) cylinder (c) cuboid (d) cone
- 13.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) sphere (b) cube (c) star (d) cylinder
- 14.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) shape (b) line (c) space (d) form
- 15.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 16.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 17.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) poster colour (b) pencil (c) oil pastels (d) wax crayons
- 18.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 19.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a person standing tall (b) a standing tree trunk (c) a table top (d) a leaning ladder
- 20.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape (c) a flat outline
- 21.📏 What kind of line does a ruler’s edge look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) wavy line (c) straight line (d) spiral line
- 22.🧊 Which 3D form is a candle shaped like? (a) cone (b) sphere (c) cube (d) cylinder
- 23.True or false: drying bristles up is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows more detail (b) looks bigger (c) looks paler and bluer (d) overlaps other things
- 25.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 26.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 27.True or false: a playground slide is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
- 28.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) shows more detail (c) looks smaller (d) sits lower on the page
- 29.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 30.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 31.🍃 Is a paint splash a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 32.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a dotted line (b) a zigzag (c) a straight line (d) a spiral
- 33.🧱 Which element of art is “what a rainbow shows”? (a) value (b) line (c) space (d) colour
- 34.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) a sense of near and far (b) looks furry or scaly (c) has height, width, depth (d) a closed flat outline
- 35.True or false: we use a sharpener for giving a pencil a point. (a) False (b) True
- 36.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 37.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a brick (b) a drinking straw (c) a globe (d) a sugar cube
- 38.⬜⬛ Does white have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 39.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) the darker half of it (b) the dark shape it throws (c) where light hits most (d) the side away from light
- 40.📏 What kind of line does a laser beam look like? (a) wavy line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) zigzag line
Answer key
- False
- a shape
- farther away
- giving a pencil a point
- a moving dot’s path
- line
- texture
- False
- line
- smooth, soft tones
- a snail shell
- cone
- star
- space
- vertical
- horizontal
- wax crayons
- dark value
- a leaning ladder
- a 3D form
- straight line
- cylinder
- False
- looks paler and bluer
- near the viewer
- False
- True
- looks smaller
- 7
- 2
- organic shape
- a spiral
- colour
- looks furry or scaly
- True
- highlight
- a globe
- light value
- the dark shape it throws
- straight line
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