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.True or false: a table top is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) water and mild soap (b) glue (c) hot oil (d) sand
- 3.True or false: “soft, creamy sticks” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) False (b) True
- 4.📏 Draw a leaning ladder with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 5.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) colour (b) space (c) value (d) line
- 6.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called value. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 8.True or false: a snail shell looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
- 9.📐 Is an oval a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 10.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4B (b) 2B (c) B (d) H
- 11.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) letting paint dry on it (c) washing with mild soap (d) standing on its bristles
- 12.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) colour (b) value (c) space (d) line
- 13.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) see-through colour (b) grey lines for sketching (c) bright, flat colour (d) soft, creamy sticks
- 14.🖌️ Is washing with mild soap good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 15.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) star (b) cone (c) square (d) triangle
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) drying bristles up (c) washing with mild soap (d) rinsing between colours
- 17.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
- 18.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) how a surface feels (b) gaps between things (c) looks furry or scaly (d) a hue, like red or blue
- 19.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 20.True or false: white has a light value. (a) False (b) True
- 21.True or false: “soft, creamy sticks” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
- 22.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a globe (b) a marble (c) a shoe box (d) a dice
- 23.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) only length and width (b) the area around objects (c) what a rainbow shows (d) from white to black
- 24.True or false: “do not smudge easily” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
- 25.True or false: “a long, thin mark” is the element called line. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) eyes (b) feet (c) knees (d) elbows
- 27.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a sleeping person (b) the edge of a calm sea (c) a person standing tall (d) a playground slide
- 28.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) reshaping the tip (c) leaving it in water (d) letting paint dry on it
- 29.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) texture (c) value (d) frame
- 30.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) bright, flat colour (c) hard, waxy sticks (d) do not smudge easily
- 31.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 32.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) square (b) cone (c) sphere (d) cube
- 33.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) triangle (b) cube (c) rectangle (d) star
- 34.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) only length and width (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) gaps between things
- 35.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part in between (b) the bottom of the page (c) the part nearest you (d) the part farthest away
- 36.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “falling or sliding”? (a) curved lines (b) vertical lines (c) diagonal lines (d) zigzag lines
- 37.📏 What kind of line does dashes on a road look like? (a) zigzag line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) wavy line
- 38.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
- 39.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) hatching (b) blending (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
- 40.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) space (b) colour (c) glue (d) shape
Answer key
- False
- water and mild soap
- True
- diagonal
- value
- False
- near the viewer
- True
- a 2D shape
- H
- washing with mild soap
- colour
- soft, creamy sticks
- good brush care
- cone
- letting paint dry on it
- 4
- a hue, like red or blue
- 7
- True
- False
- a shoe box
- what a rainbow shows
- False
- True
- eyes
- a playground slide
- reshaping the tip
- frame
- mixed with lots of water
- soft, dark marks
- sphere
- cube
- rough, smooth or bumpy
- the part farthest away
- diagonal lines
- dotted or broken line
- False
- hatching
- glue
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