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 of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) grey lines for sketching (c) mixed with lots of water (d) blend with a fingertip
- 2.Which of these is called hatching? (a) dots packed close (b) criss-cross lines (c) many parallel lines (d) lines crossing over
- 3.True or false: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
- 4.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) ocean waves (b) a tightly pulled rope (c) a ruler’s edge (d) stitches on cloth
- 5.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 6.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 7.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) far hills and the sky (b) the part in between (c) the bottom of the page (d) the part farthest away
- 8.🧊 Which 3D form is a marble shaped like? (a) cube (b) cuboid (c) cylinder (d) sphere
- 9.True or false: a flag in the wind looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 11.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 2H (b) HB (c) 6B (d) 4H
- 12.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a sleeping person (b) the edge of a calm sea (c) a leaning ladder (d) a person standing tall
- 13.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) cast shadow (b) highlight (c) shadow side
- 14.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
- 15.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 16.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) poster colour (b) oil pastels (c) wax crayons (d) pencil
- 17.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) frame (c) texture (d) line
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) is partly hidden (b) looks paler and bluer (c) looks smaller (d) overlaps other things
- 19.Which of these is good brush care? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) standing on its bristles (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) washing with mild soap
- 20.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a table top (b) a falling tree (c) a standing tree trunk (d) a playground slide
- 21.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) colour (b) space (c) shape (d) glue
- 22.True or false: dashes on a road looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 24.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a closed flat outline (b) gaps between things (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) how a surface feels
- 25.🧰 Which art tool do we use for wide, straight strokes? (a) sponge (b) flat brush (c) sharpener (d) easel
- 26.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) gaps between things (b) a closed flat outline (c) only length and width (d) how a surface feels
- 27.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cylinder (b) cuboid (c) pyramid (d) square
- 28.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) water and mild soap (b) sand (c) hot oil (d) glue
- 29.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 30.📏 What kind of line does a snail shell look like? (a) spiral line (b) zigzag line (c) straight line (d) dotted or broken line
- 31.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) blend with a fingertip (c) soft, light washes (d) bright, flat colour
- 32.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) taller (b) younger (c) farther away (d) closer to you
- 33.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) HB (b) 2B
- 34.True or false: we use a palette for mixing colours. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) water pot (b) round brush (c) palette (d) masking tape
- 36.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “still and peaceful”? (a) zigzag lines (b) horizontal lines (c) curved lines (d) diagonal lines
- 37.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
- 38.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) zigzag line (b) straight line (c) wavy line (d) spiral line
- 39.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) H (b) 2H (c) 2B (d) 4H
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) letting paint dry on it (c) rinsing between colours (d) drying bristles up
Answer key
- grey lines for sketching
- many parallel lines
- False
- ocean waves
- True
- diagonal
- the bottom of the page
- sphere
- False
- bad for the brush
- HB
- a leaning ladder
- shadow side
- background
- 7
- poster colour
- frame
- overlaps other things
- washing with mild soap
- a standing tree trunk
- glue
- True
- near the viewer
- a hue, like red or blue
- flat brush
- how a surface feels
- square
- water and mild soap
- True
- spiral line
- soft, light washes
- farther away
- 2B
- True
- masking tape
- horizontal lines
- False
- spiral line
- 2B
- letting paint dry on it
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