Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 727 · 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.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
2. 2.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) star (b) pyramid (c) sphere (d) cone
3. 3.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
4. 4.Which of these is the element called value? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) a sense of near and far (c) only length and width (d) from white to black
5. 5.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) thick, opaque paint (c) do not smudge easily (d) light first outlines
6. 6.🔭 In a picture, an object that is partly hidden seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
7. 7.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
8. 8.True or false: pale yellow has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.What do we use a round brush for? (a) fine lines and details (b) rinsing brushes (c) mixing colours (d) holding paper flat
10. 10.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a jalebi (b) a lightning bolt (c) dashes on a road (d) a laser beam
11. 11.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
12. 12.True or false: a cylinder is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.What do we use masking tape for? (a) giving a pencil a point (b) holding a board upright (c) holding paper flat (d) fine lines and details
14. 14.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
15. 15.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) looks bigger (b) looks smaller (c) sits lower on the page (d) overlaps other things
16. 16.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) foreground (b) highlight (c) border (d) vanishing point
17. 17.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter B stand for? (a) blue (b) black (c) brown (d) big
18. 18.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of poster colour. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: a standing tree trunk is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) glue (b) water and mild soap (c) sand (d) hot oil
21. 21.True or false: we use masking tape for holding paper flat. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) texture (c) value (d) frame
23. 23.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) 2B (b) HB
24. 24.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
25. 25.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) form (b) texture (c) shape (d) space
26. 26.True or false: navy blue has a light value. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: leaving it in water is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cylinder (b) circle (c) pyramid (d) cuboid
29. 29.True or false: a flag in the wind looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a zigzag line (b) a wavy line (c) a dotted line (d) a straight line
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks paler and bluer (b) looks smaller (c) is partly hidden (d) looks bigger
32. 32.True or false: on a shaded ball, where light hits most is called the highlight. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: shading with lots of tiny dots is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) colour (c) space (d) glue
35. 35.True or false: on a shaded ball, the darker half of it is called the shadow side. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) bright, flat colour (b) blend with a fingertip (c) do not smudge easily (d) soft, creamy sticks
37. 37.📐 Is a square a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
38. 38.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) from white to black (b) has height, width, depth (c) how a surface feels (d) a sense of near and far
39. 39.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks

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