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.📏 Draw a leaning ladder with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 2.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a lightning bolt (b) dashes on a road (c) the teeth of a saw (d) a jalebi
- 3.True or false: a sleeping person is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
- 4.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called blending. (a) True (b) False
- 5.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
- 6.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) bristles down (b) with paint on it (c) bristles up or flat (d) in the water pot
- 7.True or false: a tall lamp post is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 8.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 9.📏 What kind of line does the teeth of a saw look like? (a) straight line (b) spiral line (c) dotted or broken line (d) zigzag line
- 10.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called texture. (a) True (b) False
- 11.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) hot oil (b) glue (c) sand (d) water and mild soap
- 12.Which of these is the element called value? (a) can be seen all round (b) a moving dot’s path (c) how light or dark it is (d) the area around objects
- 13.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 14.Which of these is called blending? (a) criss-cross lines (b) dots packed close (c) smudging with a finger (d) lines crossing over
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cylinder (b) cone (c) pyramid (d) oval
- 16.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter H stand for? (a) hard (b) high (c) heavy (d) hot
- 17.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) curved lines (b) zigzag lines (c) horizontal lines (d) vertical lines
- 18.🧰 Which art tool do we use for wide, straight strokes? (a) palette (b) water pot (c) flat brush (d) sponge
- 19.What do we use a palette for? (a) rinsing brushes (b) giving a pencil a point (c) mixing colours (d) wide, straight strokes
- 20.True or false: “soft, light washes” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
- 21.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) a lightning bolt (c) a wriggling snake (d) a laser beam
- 22.✏️ Which pencil is softer: 4B or 2B? (a) 4B (b) 2B
- 23.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a flat outline (b) a 3D form (c) a 2D shape
- 24.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) line (b) space (c) form (d) shape
- 25.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part in between is the background. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) easel (d) form
- 27.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 28.📏 What kind of line does a jalebi look like? (a) spiral line (b) straight line (c) zigzag line (d) wavy line
- 29.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a flat 2D area (b) only length and width (c) a long, thin mark (d) a sense of near and far
- 30.True or false: a sleeping person is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🖌️ Is standing on its bristles good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 32.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) cross-hatching (b) hatching (c) blending (d) stippling
- 33.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) curved lines (b) diagonal lines (c) horizontal lines (d) zigzag lines
- 34.🔭 In a picture, an object that is partly hidden seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 35.True or false: on a shaded ball, where light hits most is called the highlight. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 37.🔭 In a picture, an object that overlaps other things seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 38.🧊 Which 3D form is a brick shaped like? (a) sphere (b) cube (c) cone (d) cuboid
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cylinder (b) pyramid (c) cube (d) circle
- 40.✏️ Which side of a ball facing a lamp is the lightest? (a) the side away from it (b) the side facing the lamp (c) the bottom
Answer key
- diagonal
- dashes on a road
- True
- False
- True
- bristles up or flat
- False
- True
- zigzag line
- False
- water and mild soap
- how light or dark it is
- 7
- smudging with a finger
- oval
- hard
- vertical lines
- flat brush
- mixing colours
- True
- a wriggling snake
- 4B
- a 3D form
- line
- False
- easel
- True
- spiral line
- a long, thin mark
- False
- bad for the brush
- hatching
- zigzag lines
- far away
- True
- background
- near the viewer
- cuboid
- circle
- the side facing the lamp
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