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 should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) bristles down (b) bristles up or flat (c) in the water pot (d) with paint on it
- 2.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) bright, flat colour (b) see-through colour (c) grey lines for sketching (d) mixed with lots of water
- 3.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) looks bigger (b) shows more detail (c) sits near the horizon (d) sits lower on the page
- 4.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a coiled rope (b) a cut-here line (c) a tightly pulled rope (d) dashes on a road
- 5.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 6.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a straight line. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🧱 Which element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) form (b) line (c) texture (d) colour
- 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) triangle (b) star (c) cuboid (d) square
- 9.True or false: a puddle is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
- 10.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) do not smudge easily (b) light first outlines (c) mixed with lots of water (d) bright, flat colour
- 11.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) sphere (b) cube (c) cone (d) square
- 12.Which of these is called hatching? (a) criss-cross lines (b) many parallel lines (c) lines crossing over (d) lots of tiny dots
- 13.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) cross-hatching (b) stippling (c) hatching (d) blending
- 14.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
- 15.True or false: “from white to black” is the element called shape. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 17.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) is partly hidden (b) sits lower on the page (c) looks bigger (d) overlaps other things
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) drying bristles up (b) letting paint dry on it (c) standing on its bristles (d) leaving it in water
- 19.True or false: we use a sharpener for giving a pencil a point. (a) True (b) False
- 20.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) easel (b) palette (c) sponge (d) round brush
- 21.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a matchbox (b) a football (c) a globe (d) an ice-cream cone
- 22.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape (c) a flat outline
- 23.🖌️ Is washing with mild soap good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 24.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) oil pastels (d) watercolour
- 25.📏 What kind of line does stitches on cloth look like? (a) spiral line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) zigzag line
- 26.True or false: light grey has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) texture (b) shape (c) value (d) line
- 28.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 29.True or false: leaving it in water is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: in a landscape picture, the top of the scene is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 31.True or false: “rough, smooth or bumpy” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
- 32.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) a long, thin mark (c) the area around objects (d) only length and width
- 33.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) looks paler and bluer (c) looks bigger (d) shows more detail
- 34.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 35.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
- 36.True or false: a cone is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) texture (b) form (c) value (d) colour
- 38.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) value (b) colour (c) texture (d) line
- 39.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
- 40.🧊 Which 3D form is an ice-cream cone shaped like? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) sphere (d) cylinder
Answer key
- bristles up or flat
- grey lines for sketching
- sits near the horizon
- a tightly pulled rope
- 7
- True
- form
- cuboid
- True
- bright, flat colour
- sphere
- many parallel lines
- stippling
- False
- False
- 12
- is partly hidden
- drying bristles up
- True
- palette
- an ice-cream cone
- a 3D form
- good brush care
- watercolour
- dotted or broken line
- False
- value
- diagonal
- False
- False
- True
- only length and width
- looks paler and bluer
- soft, dark marks
- background
- True
- colour
- value
- 4
- cone
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