Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 597 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.What do we use masking tape for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) holding paper flat (c) giving a pencil a point (d) holding a board upright
2. 2.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) stippling (b) cross-hatching (c) blending (d) hatching
3. 3.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter H stand for? (a) high (b) heavy (c) hard (d) hot
4. 4.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
5. 5.📏 What kind of line does a snail shell look like? (a) wavy line (b) straight line (c) spiral line (d) zigzag line
6. 6.🖌️ Is drying bristles up good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
7. 7.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
8. 8.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
9. 9.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
10. 10.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) sits lower on the page (c) looks paler and bluer (d) looks bigger
11. 11.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) diagonal lines (b) vertical lines (c) horizontal lines (d) zigzag lines
12. 12.True or false: pale yellow has a light value. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a jalebi (b) a laser beam (c) the teeth of a saw (d) a snail shell
14. 14.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “calm and resting”? (a) vertical lines (b) horizontal lines (c) curved lines (d) zigzag lines
15. 15.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 6B (b) HB (c) H (d) B
16. 16.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
17. 17.What do we use a flat brush for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) rinsing brushes (c) mixing colours (d) holding paper flat
18. 18.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a dotted line (b) a zigzag (c) a spiral (d) a straight line
20. 20.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
21. 21.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a lightning bolt (b) a ruler’s edge (c) a flag in the wind (d) the teeth of a saw
22. 22.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) bright, flat colour (b) mixed with lots of water (c) grey lines for sketching (d) do not smudge easily
23. 23.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) drying bristles up (c) rinsing between colours (d) washing with mild soap
24. 24.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
25. 25.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of poster colour. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part nearest you (b) far hills and the sky (c) things that look biggest (d) the part in between
27. 27.💡 On a shaded ball, what is its shadow on the table called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
28. 28.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a sense of near and far (b) gaps between things (c) a closed flat outline (d) a moving dot’s path
29. 29.True or false: pencil grade B makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the bottom of the page (b) the part in between (c) the top of the scene (d) things that look biggest
31. 31.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) texture (b) line (c) space (d) value
32. 32.Which of these is good brush care? (a) standing on its bristles (b) leaving it in water (c) reshaping the tip (d) scrubbing hard on paper
33. 33.True or false: we use a sponge for dabbing soft textures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: “a closed flat outline” is the element called value. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.📏 What kind of line does ocean waves look like? (a) zigzag line (b) dotted or broken line (c) spiral line (d) wavy line
36. 36.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a sculpture (b) a cube (c) a form (d) a shape
37. 37.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “moving fast”? (a) zigzag lines (b) horizontal lines (c) diagonal lines (d) curved lines
38. 38.🖌️ Which brush is best for painting a wide, even sky? (a) a toothpick (b) a wide flat brush (c) a small round brush (d) a pencil
39. 39.True or false: a paint splash is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a wriggling snake looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True

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