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.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) is partly hidden (b) shows less detail (c) looks smaller (d) sits lower on the page
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) leaving it in water (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) rinsing between colours
- 3.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) oil pastels (b) wax crayons (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
- 4.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) value (c) form (d) easel
- 5.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a shoe box (b) a drinking straw (c) a water pipe (d) a traffic cone
- 6.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) see-through colour (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) grey lines for sketching (d) soft, creamy sticks
- 7.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
- 8.🧊 Which 3D form is a traffic cone shaped like? (a) cone (b) cube (c) sphere (d) cylinder
- 9.True or false: black has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
- 10.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a playground slide (b) a standing tree trunk (c) a leaning ladder (d) a falling tree
- 11.🧊 Which 3D form is a water pipe shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) cube (c) cylinder (d) cone
- 12.🍃 Is a cloud a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 13.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 15.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 16.True or false: a falling tree is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
- 17.True or false: we use a palette for holding a board upright. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) vanishing point (c) foreground (d) border
- 19.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) dots packed close (b) lines crossing over (c) lines all one way (d) smudging with a finger
- 20.📏 What kind of line does dashes on a road look like? (a) wavy line (b) spiral line (c) zigzag line (d) dotted or broken line
- 21.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) colour (b) shape (c) space (d) glue
- 22.True or false: “gaps between things” is the element called space. (a) True (b) False
- 23.True or false: an object that is partly hidden seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 24.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) cross-hatching (b) stippling (c) hatching (d) blending
- 25.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) space (b) line (c) texture (d) value
- 26.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 2D shape (b) a flat outline (c) a 3D form
- 27.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) sphere (b) cone (c) cube (d) circle
- 29.📐 Is a cylinder a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 30.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) round brush (b) palette (c) masking tape (d) flat brush
- 31.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) pencil (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) charcoal
- 32.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 33.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) gaps between things (b) can be seen all round (c) looks furry or scaly (d) a hue, like red or blue
- 34.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) texture (b) colour (c) form (d) line
- 35.Which of these is called stippling? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) lots of tiny dots (c) lines crossing over (d) many parallel lines
- 36.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 37.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 38.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 39.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 40.📐 Is a rectangle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
Answer key
- sits lower on the page
- rinsing between colours
- watercolour
- easel
- a shoe box
- grey lines for sketching
- False
- cone
- True
- a standing tree trunk
- cylinder
- organic shape
- True
- 7
- True
- True
- False
- vanishing point
- lines crossing over
- dotted or broken line
- glue
- True
- True
- stippling
- texture
- a 3D form
- False
- cube
- a 3D form
- palette
- poster colour
- 9
- a hue, like red or blue
- texture
- lots of tiny dots
- 2
- geometric shape
- near the viewer
- hard, light marks
- a 2D shape
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