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: an object that looks smaller seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 2.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a water pipe (b) a sugar cube (c) an ice-cream cone (d) a marble
- 3.📏 What kind of line does dashes on a road look like? (a) zigzag line (b) straight line (c) wavy line (d) dotted or broken line
- 4.True or false: on a shaded ball, where light hits most is called the shadow side. (a) True (b) False
- 5.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 6.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) knees (b) elbows (c) eyes (d) feet
- 7.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 8.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) wax crayons (b) watercolour (c) oil pastels (d) poster colour
- 9.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) grey lines for sketching (b) bright, flat colour (c) light first outlines (d) do not smudge easily
- 10.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the top of the scene (b) the bottom of the page (c) the part farthest away (d) the part in between
- 11.🧱 Which element of art is “from white to black”? (a) colour (b) line (c) value (d) space
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) pyramid (c) cuboid (d) rectangle
- 13.True or false: shading with lots of tiny dots is called blending. (a) False (b) True
- 14.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 15.True or false: rinsing between colours is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 16.Which of these is shaped like a cylinder? (a) a brick (b) a globe (c) a sugar cube (d) a drinking straw
- 17.🖌️ Is standing on its bristles good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 18.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) hatching (b) stippling (c) blending (d) cross-hatching
- 19.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a marble (b) a dice (c) a matchbox (d) an ice-cream cone
- 20.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 21.📐 Is a cone a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 22.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) form (b) texture (c) value (d) shape
- 23.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) sphere (b) circle (c) cube (d) cone
- 24.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 25.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the top of the scene (b) the part in between (c) far hills and the sky (d) the part nearest you
- 26.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 27.True or false: “from white to black” is the element called colour. (a) False (b) True
- 28.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a closed flat outline (b) can be seen all round (c) a sense of near and far (d) the area around objects
- 29.True or false: a triangle is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
- 30.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) space (b) glue (c) colour (d) shape
- 31.✏️ Which pencil makes lighter lines: HB or 2H? (a) HB (b) 2H
- 32.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) frame (b) line (c) texture (d) value
- 33.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) HB (b) 2B
- 34.True or false: a hexagon is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) easel (c) value (d) form
- 36.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “flowing and graceful”? (a) horizontal lines (b) vertical lines (c) diagonal lines (d) curved lines
- 37.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) smudging with a finger (b) dots packed close (c) lines crossing over (d) many parallel lines
- 38.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) hot oil (b) water and mild soap (c) sand (d) glue
- 39.True or false: pencil grade B makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
Answer key
- False
- an ice-cream cone
- dotted or broken line
- False
- soft, dark marks
- eyes
- 7
- watercolour
- do not smudge easily
- the bottom of the page
- value
- rectangle
- False
- vertical
- False
- a drinking straw
- bad for the brush
- stippling
- a marble
- bad for the brush
- a 3D form
- shape
- cube
- soft, dark marks
- the part nearest you
- 12
- False
- a closed flat outline
- False
- glue
- 2H
- frame
- 2B
- True
- easel
- curved lines
- lines crossing over
- water and mild soap
- True
- 4
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