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 the element called colour? (a) only length and width (b) from white to black (c) what a rainbow shows (d) a sense of near and far
- 2.True or false: a circle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🛤️ Where does the vanishing point sit? (a) on the frame (b) at the bottom edge (c) on the horizon line (d) in the foreground
- 4.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) border (c) vanishing point (d) foreground
- 5.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) round brush (b) flat brush (c) water pot (d) palette
- 6.🧊 Which 3D form is a football shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) cube (c) cone (d) sphere
- 7.Which of these is called blending? (a) criss-cross lines (b) smudging with a finger (c) lines all one way (d) many parallel lines
- 8.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems far away. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “do not smudge easily”? (a) oil pastels (b) watercolour (c) poster colour (d) wax crayons
- 10.Which of these is good brush care? (a) leaving it in water (b) standing on its bristles (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) drying bristles up
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks bigger (b) sits lower on the page (c) looks smaller (d) overlaps other things
- 12.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pyramid (b) sphere (c) circle (d) cylinder
- 14.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) a sense of near and far (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) a solid 3D object
- 15.🧱 Which element of art is “a solid 3D object”? (a) form (b) line (c) texture (d) shape
- 16.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) star (b) triangle (c) cube (d) rectangle
- 17.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 18.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) shadow side (b) highlight (c) cast shadow
- 19.True or false: a square is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 20.✏️ Which pencil is softer: 4B or 2B? (a) 2B (b) 4B
- 21.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) HB (b) 2B
- 22.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 23.🧰 Which art tool do we use for rinsing brushes? (a) sponge (b) water pot (c) sharpener (d) easel
- 24.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called space. (a) True (b) False
- 25.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) oval (b) cuboid (c) pyramid (d) cylinder
- 26.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 2H (b) 6B (c) H (d) 4H
- 27.True or false: “how a surface feels” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) sphere (b) cube (c) circle (d) cone
- 29.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) knees (b) feet (c) eyes (d) elbows
- 30.🖌️ Is letting paint dry on it good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 31.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 32.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) hot oil (b) sand (c) water and mild soap (d) glue
- 33.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) looks bigger (b) shows less detail (c) looks smaller (d) looks paler and bluer
- 34.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) with paint on it (b) bristles down (c) bristles up or flat (d) in the water pot
- 35.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “blend with a fingertip”? (a) pencil (b) wax crayons (c) poster colour (d) oil pastels
- 36.True or false: “soft, light washes” is a feature of poster colour. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: an object that looks smaller seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🍃 Is a cloud a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 39.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding a board upright? (a) palette (b) masking tape (c) sharpener (d) easel
- 40.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
Answer key
- what a rainbow shows
- False
- on the horizon line
- vanishing point
- palette
- sphere
- smudging with a finger
- False
- wax crayons
- drying bristles up
- looks smaller
- geometric shape
- circle
- a hue, like red or blue
- form
- cube
- dark value
- highlight
- False
- 4B
- 2B
- vertical
- water pot
- True
- oval
- 6B
- True
- cube
- eyes
- bad for the brush
- background
- water and mild soap
- looks bigger
- bristles up or flat
- oil pastels
- False
- False
- organic shape
- easel
- bad for the brush
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