Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 663 · 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.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
2. 2.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
3. 3.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
4. 4.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) an ice-cream cone (b) a traffic cone (c) a brick (d) a drinking straw
5. 5.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, light washes”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) pencil
6. 6.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
7. 7.Which of these is shaped like a cylinder? (a) a globe (b) a candle (c) a party hat (d) a football
8. 8.⬜⬛ Does dark brown have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
9. 9.📏 What kind of line does a jalebi look like? (a) spiral line (b) wavy line (c) straight line (d) zigzag line
10. 10.⬜⬛ Does cream have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
11. 11.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) line (b) texture (c) colour (d) shape
12. 12.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) form (b) line (c) easel (d) value
13. 13.🖼️ In the rule of thirds, where should the main subject go? (a) in a corner (b) off the page (c) where the lines cross (d) at the very edge
14. 14.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) shows more detail (b) looks paler and bluer (c) sits near the horizon (d) looks smaller
15. 15.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) H (b) 4H (c) HB (d) 6B
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) leaving it in water (c) reshaping the tip (d) standing on its bristles
17. 17.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) straight line (c) spiral line (d) zigzag line
18. 18.True or false: a cone is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.📏 What kind of line does a tightly pulled rope look like? (a) straight line (b) zigzag line (c) dotted or broken line (d) wavy line
20. 20.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) drying bristles up (b) washing with mild soap (c) rinsing between colours (d) letting paint dry on it
22. 22.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part farthest away is the background. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
24. 24.True or false: standing on its bristles is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “soft and gentle”? (a) vertical lines (b) diagonal lines (c) zigzag lines (d) curved lines
26. 26.📏 Draw a falling tree with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
27. 27.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) holding a board upright (b) giving a pencil a point (c) holding paper flat (d) mixing colours
28. 28.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
29. 29.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) space (b) texture (c) line (d) shape
31. 31.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) where light hits most (b) the brightest spot (c) the side away from light (d) its shadow on the table
33. 33.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) space (b) colour (c) shape (d) texture
34. 34.True or false: an oval is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) light first outlines (b) blend with a fingertip (c) see-through colour (d) thick, opaque paint
36. 36.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) hatching (b) blending (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
37. 37.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
38. 38.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
39. 39.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a person standing tall (b) a standing tree trunk (c) a sleeping person (d) a tall lamp post
40. 40.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits near the horizon seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away

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