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.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
- 2.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) oval (b) triangle (c) square (d) cube
- 3.Which of these is shaped like a cylinder? (a) a shoe box (b) a globe (c) a drinking straw (d) a party hat
- 4.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the bottom of the page (b) the top of the scene (c) things that look biggest (d) the part in between
- 5.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) square (b) sphere (c) cone (d) cube
- 6.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) its shadow on the table (b) where light hits most (c) the dark shape it throws (d) the side away from light
- 7.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a sleeping person (c) a leaning ladder (d) a person standing tall
- 8.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🖌️ Is letting paint dry on it good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 10.📐 Is an oval a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 11.Which of these is the element called space? (a) what a rainbow shows (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) a long, thin mark (d) gaps between things
- 12.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) colour (b) form (c) line (d) texture
- 13.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) standing on its bristles (d) reshaping the tip
- 15.True or false: a circle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) watercolour (b) charcoal (c) poster colour (d) pencil
- 17.🧊 Which 3D form is a dice shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) cube (c) cylinder (d) cone
- 18.True or false: pencil grade H makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 19.🎯 The part of a picture your eye goes to first is the… (a) horizon (b) border (c) focal point (d) background
- 20.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) foreground (b) vanishing point (c) border (d) highlight
- 21.True or false: white has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 22.🧊 Which 3D form is a brick shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) sphere (c) cylinder (d) cube
- 23.🧰 Which art tool do we use for dabbing soft textures? (a) sharpener (b) palette (c) round brush (d) sponge
- 24.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) overlaps other things (b) looks smaller (c) sits near the horizon (d) shows less detail
- 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) oval (c) cone (d) pyramid
- 26.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) zigzag line (b) wavy line (c) dotted or broken line (d) spiral line
- 27.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) B (b) 4H (c) H (d) 2H
- 28.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) gaps between things (b) what a rainbow shows (c) has height, width, depth (d) how a surface feels
- 29.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 30.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) red to blue (b) white to black (c) big to small (d) near to far
- 31.🖌️ Is washing with mild soap good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cuboid (b) sphere (c) cone (d) square
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) star (c) cylinder (d) cuboid
- 34.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) space (b) shape (c) value (d) line
- 35.True or false: an object that sits near the horizon seems far away. (a) True (b) False
- 36.True or false: a laser beam looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 37.Which of these is the element called form? (a) what a rainbow shows (b) a solid 3D object (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) looks furry or scaly
- 38.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 39.📏 What kind of line does a jalebi look like? (a) spiral line (b) wavy line (c) straight line (d) zigzag line
- 40.True or false: a sleeping person is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- cast shadow
- cube
- a drinking straw
- the top of the scene
- sphere
- where light hits most
- a leaning ladder
- True
- bad for the brush
- a 2D shape
- gaps between things
- form
- near the viewer
- reshaping the tip
- False
- poster colour
- cube
- False
- focal point
- vanishing point
- False
- cuboid
- sponge
- overlaps other things
- oval
- spiral line
- B
- what a rainbow shows
- geometric shape
- white to black
- good brush care
- square
- star
- shape
- True
- False
- a solid 3D object
- 7
- spiral line
- True
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