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.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 2.True or false: navy blue has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
- 3.True or false: we use a palette for holding paper flat. (a) False (b) True
- 4.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 5.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called cross-hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 6.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a water pipe (b) a matchbox (c) a dice (d) a marble
- 7.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 8.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a cube (b) a sculpture (c) a form (d) a shape
- 9.True or false: a lightning bolt looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) easel (b) value (c) line (d) form
- 11.What do we use a water pot for? (a) rinsing brushes (b) fine lines and details (c) wide, straight strokes (d) holding paper flat
- 12.⚽ How many flat faces does a sphere have?
- 13.True or false: an object that sits near the horizon seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 14.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) spiral line (b) zigzag line (c) wavy line (d) straight line
- 15.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 16.💡 The light comes from the LEFT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) above the object (b) on the right side (c) inside the object (d) on the left side
- 17.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
- 18.True or false: a circle is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 19.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) light first outlines (c) blend with a fingertip (d) bright, flat colour
- 20.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 21.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 22.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) looks smaller (b) looks bigger (c) is partly hidden (d) looks paler and bluer
- 23.🍃 Is a hexagon a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 24.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) straight line (b) wavy line (c) dotted or broken line (d) zigzag line
- 25.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) rectangle (b) sphere (c) cube (d) pyramid
- 26.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
- 27.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2H or 2B? (a) 2H (b) 2B
- 28.True or false: we use a palette for fine lines and details. (a) True (b) False
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) oval (c) sphere (d) cylinder
- 30.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a zigzag line (b) a wavy line (c) a straight line (d) a dotted line
- 31.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 6B (b) B (c) HB (d) 2H
- 32.True or false: we use an easel for holding a board upright. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) shape (b) value (c) texture (d) form
- 34.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) cube (b) square (c) cone (d) sphere
- 35.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) has height, width, depth (b) a solid 3D object (c) only length and width (d) can be seen all round
- 36.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) flat brush (b) palette (c) water pot (d) sharpener
- 38.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks smaller seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 39.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) shape (b) colour (c) form (d) line
Answer key
- good brush care
- True
- False
- 12
- True
- a marble
- 2
- a shape
- True
- easel
- rinsing brushes
- 0
- False
- zigzag line
- 7
- on the right side
- True
- True
- bright, flat colour
- bad for the brush
- soft, dark marks
- looks bigger
- geometric shape
- wavy line
- rectangle
- background
- 2B
- False
- oval
- a wavy line
- HB
- True
- texture
- sphere
- only length and width
- True
- palette
- far away
- False
- form
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