Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 718 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) space (b) shape (c) colour (d) glue
2. 2.True or false: cream has a light value. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) value (b) texture (c) line (d) shape
4. 4.True or false: pale yellow has a light value. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) line (b) colour (c) space (d) shape
6. 6.What do we use a round brush for? (a) giving a pencil a point (b) dabbing soft textures (c) fine lines and details (d) mixing colours
7. 7.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 2B (b) 6B
8. 8.🧱 Which element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) space (b) colour (c) shape (d) form
9. 9.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
10. 10.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a table top (c) a leaning ladder (d) a sleeping person
11. 11.🧊 Which 3D form is a drinking straw shaped like? (a) cube (b) cone (c) cuboid (d) cylinder
12. 12.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) sand (b) glue (c) hot oil (d) water and mild soap
13. 13.True or false: a sphere is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter H stand for? (a) hard (b) heavy (c) high (d) hot
15. 15.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) blending
16. 16.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a dotted line (b) a zigzag (c) a straight line (d) a spiral
17. 17.True or false: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) rinsing between colours (c) washing with mild soap (d) scrubbing hard on paper
19. 19.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) where light hits most (b) the dark shape it throws (c) the darker half of it (d) the side away from light
20. 20.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) poster colour (b) watercolour (c) wax crayons (d) pencil
21. 21.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) its shadow on the table (b) the darker half of it (c) the side away from light (d) where light hits most
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows less detail (b) shows more detail (c) is partly hidden (d) looks smaller
23. 23.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.💡 The light comes from the LEFT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) on the right side (b) above the object (c) inside the object (d) on the left side
25. 25.🍃 Is a square a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
26. 26.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the background. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) palette (b) flat brush (c) sharpener (d) water pot
28. 28.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a sleeping person (b) a tall lamp post (c) a falling tree (d) a playground slide
29. 29.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
30. 30.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) how a surface feels (b) from white to black (c) a long, thin mark (d) a closed flat outline
31. 31.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) younger (b) taller (c) closer to you (d) farther away
32. 32.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) drying bristles up (b) reshaping the tip (c) rinsing between colours (d) scrubbing hard on paper
33. 33.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) dashes on a road (b) a cut-here line (c) stitches on cloth (d) a lightning bolt
34. 34.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
35. 35.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🧱 Which element of art is “looks furry or scaly”? (a) line (b) shape (c) space (d) texture
37. 37.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
38. 38.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) diagonal lines (b) zigzag lines (c) curved lines (d) vertical lines
39. 39.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) stippling (b) cross-hatching (c) blending (d) hatching
40. 40.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False

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