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Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 589 · 40 questions
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 5.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
  6. 6.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a straight line. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🧱 Which element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) form (b) line (c) texture (d) colour
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) triangle (b) star (c) cuboid (d) square
  9. 9.True or false: a puddle is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
  10. 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. 11.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) sphere (b) cube (c) cone (d) square
  12. 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. 13.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) cross-hatching (b) stippling (c) hatching (d) blending
  14. 14.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: “from white to black” is the element called shape. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
  17. 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. 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. 19.True or false: we use a sharpener for giving a pencil a point. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) easel (b) palette (c) sponge (d) round brush
  21. 21.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a matchbox (b) a football (c) a globe (d) an ice-cream cone
  22. 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. 23.🖌️ Is washing with mild soap good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
  24. 24.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) oil pastels (d) watercolour
  25. 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. 26.True or false: light grey has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) texture (b) shape (c) value (d) line
  28. 28.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
  29. 29.True or false: leaving it in water is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: in a landscape picture, the top of the scene is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: “rough, smooth or bumpy” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
  32. 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. 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. 34.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
  35. 35.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
  36. 36.True or false: a cone is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) texture (b) form (c) value (d) colour
  38. 38.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) value (b) colour (c) texture (d) line
  39. 39.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
  40. 40.🧊 Which 3D form is an ice-cream cone shaped like? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) sphere (d) cylinder

Answer key

  1. bristles up or flat
  2. grey lines for sketching
  3. sits near the horizon
  4. a tightly pulled rope
  5. 7
  6. True
  7. form
  8. cuboid
  9. True
  10. bright, flat colour
  11. sphere
  12. many parallel lines
  13. stippling
  14. False
  15. False
  16. 12
  17. is partly hidden
  18. drying bristles up
  19. True
  20. palette
  21. an ice-cream cone
  22. a 3D form
  23. good brush care
  24. watercolour
  25. dotted or broken line
  26. False
  27. value
  28. diagonal
  29. False
  30. False
  31. True
  32. only length and width
  33. looks paler and bluer
  34. soft, dark marks
  35. background
  36. True
  37. colour
  38. value
  39. 4
  40. cone

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