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: an object that looks smaller seems far away. (a) True (b) False
- 2.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 3.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 4.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 2B (b) H (c) HB (d) B
- 5.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 6.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) lines all one way (b) dots packed close (c) criss-cross lines (d) smooth, soft tones
- 7.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part nearest you (b) far hills and the sky (c) the top of the scene (d) the part in between
- 8.🧰 Which art tool do we use for fine lines and details? (a) palette (b) easel (c) masking tape (d) round brush
- 9.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) square (b) cuboid (c) cube (d) cylinder
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cylinder (b) oval (c) pyramid (d) cube
- 11.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “blend with a fingertip”? (a) poster colour (b) oil pastels (c) wax crayons (d) pencil
- 12.True or false: rinsing between colours is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 13.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) texture (b) shape (c) value (d) line
- 14.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) texture (b) value (c) colour (d) line
- 15.📐 Is a cylinder a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 16.True or false: “looks furry or scaly” is the element called space. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “still and peaceful”? (a) zigzag lines (b) curved lines (c) diagonal lines (d) horizontal lines
- 18.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) bright, flat colour (c) grey lines for sketching (d) thick, opaque paint
- 19.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a football (b) a candle (c) a traffic cone (d) a party hat
- 20.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 21.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 22.True or false: a tall lamp post is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 23.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 24.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) mixing colours (b) giving a pencil a point (c) holding a board upright (d) fine lines and details
- 25.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) rectangle (b) cone (c) triangle (d) circle
- 26.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) closer to you (b) taller (c) younger (d) farther away
- 27.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 28.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) has height, width, depth (b) looks furry or scaly (c) a sense of near and far (d) a hue, like red or blue
- 29.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) smudging with a finger (b) many parallel lines (c) lines crossing over (d) lots of tiny dots
- 30.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) pyramid (b) star (c) oval (d) square
- 31.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) sphere (b) circle (c) cone (d) cube
- 32.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a long, thin mark (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) what a rainbow shows (d) the area around objects
- 33.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called blending. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 35.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) palette (b) sponge (c) masking tape (d) water pot
- 36.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part in between (b) things that look biggest (c) far hills and the sky (d) the part farthest away
- 37.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) wax crayons (b) watercolour (c) poster colour (d) pencil
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) drying bristles up (b) rinsing between colours (c) standing on its bristles (d) reshaping the tip
- 39.💡 On a shaded ball, what is its shadow on the table called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 40.What do we use a palette for? (a) dabbing soft textures (b) mixing colours (c) holding a board upright (d) rinsing brushes
Answer key
- True
- cast shadow
- soft, dark marks
- HB
- 7
- criss-cross lines
- the part nearest you
- round brush
- square
- oval
- oil pastels
- True
- value
- line
- a 3D form
- False
- horizontal lines
- mixed with lots of water
- a football
- bad for the brush
- 9
- True
- False
- giving a pencil a point
- cone
- farther away
- vertical
- a hue, like red or blue
- lines crossing over
- pyramid
- cube
- the area around objects
- False
- foreground
- masking tape
- things that look biggest
- poster colour
- standing on its bristles
- cast shadow
- mixing colours
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