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.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
- 2.💡 The light comes from the RIGHT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) above the object (b) on the right side (c) inside the object (d) on the left side
- 3.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) glue (b) hot oil (c) sand (d) water and mild soap
- 4.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
- 5.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) texture (b) shape (c) value (d) form
- 6.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “proud and steady”? (a) curved lines (b) diagonal lines (c) vertical lines (d) horizontal lines
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) oval (b) square (c) triangle (d) pyramid
- 8.True or false: a leaf is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 9.✏️ Which pencil is softer: 4B or 2B? (a) 2B (b) 4B
- 10.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a falling tree (b) a sleeping person (c) a tall lamp post (d) a playground slide
- 11.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 12.🧊 Which 3D form is a marble shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cone (c) sphere (d) cube
- 13.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) spiral line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) zigzag line
- 14.Which of these is called hatching? (a) lines crossing over (b) dots packed close (c) lines all one way (d) lots of tiny dots
- 15.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) dashes on a road (b) a ruler’s edge (c) the teeth of a saw (d) a lightning bolt
- 16.True or false: a tightly pulled rope looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 17.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) cross-hatching (b) blending (c) stippling (d) hatching
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) circle (b) star (c) triangle (d) sphere
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) washing with mild soap (c) leaving it in water (d) standing on its bristles
- 20.📏 What kind of line does a lightning bolt look like? (a) wavy line (b) straight line (c) spiral line (d) zigzag line
- 21.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows less detail (b) is partly hidden (c) shows more detail (d) sits near the horizon
- 23.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a zigzag (b) a dotted line (c) a straight line (d) a spiral
- 24.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 25.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) B (b) HB (c) H (d) 2B
- 26.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) pyramid (b) cuboid (c) cone (d) circle
- 27.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “do not smudge easily”? (a) oil pastels (b) poster colour (c) wax crayons (d) watercolour
- 28.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 29.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) space (c) glue (d) colour
- 30.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) sharpener (b) palette (c) water pot (d) masking tape
- 31.True or false: on a shaded ball, its shadow on the table is called the cast shadow. (a) False (b) True
- 32.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a coiled rope (b) a lightning bolt (c) a tightly pulled rope (d) a laser beam
- 33.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) soft, light washes (b) light first outlines (c) hard, waxy sticks (d) do not smudge easily
- 34.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
- 35.📏 Draw the edge of a calm sea with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 36.✏️ Which pencil is harder: 4H or 2H? (a) 2H (b) 4H
- 37.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
- 38.True or false: navy blue has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
- 39.⬜⬛ Does white have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 40.True or false: a square is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- background
- on the left side
- water and mild soap
- vertical
- texture
- vertical lines
- pyramid
- False
- 4B
- a sleeping person
- True
- sphere
- dotted or broken line
- lines all one way
- dashes on a road
- False
- cross-hatching
- sphere
- washing with mild soap
- zigzag line
- diagonal
- shows more detail
- a spiral
- True
- HB
- circle
- wax crayons
- 7
- glue
- palette
- True
- a lightning bolt
- light first outlines
- sits near the horizon
- horizontal
- 4H
- wax crayons
- True
- light value
- False
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