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.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part in between (b) the top of the scene (c) the part farthest away (d) things that look biggest
- 2.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 3.True or false: washing with mild soap is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 4.True or false: we use masking tape for holding paper flat. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) washing with mild soap (b) rinsing between colours (c) drying bristles up (d) letting paint dry on it
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows less detail (b) looks paler and bluer (c) looks smaller (d) looks bigger
- 7.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 8.🧰 Which art tool do we use for dabbing soft textures? (a) flat brush (b) masking tape (c) sponge (d) water pot
- 9.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, creamy sticks”? (a) pencil (b) wax crayons (c) oil pastels (d) poster colour
- 10.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
- 11.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part in between (b) the bottom of the page (c) the top of the scene (d) far hills and the sky
- 12.True or false: a standing tree trunk is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 13.True or false: a wriggling snake looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) space (b) form (c) line (d) shape
- 15.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 16.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) looks smaller (b) sits lower on the page (c) shows less detail (d) looks paler and bluer
- 17.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cuboid (b) sphere (c) cone (d) square
- 18.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 19.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 20.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
- 21.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “grey lines for sketching”? (a) watercolour (b) pencil (c) wax crayons (d) poster colour
- 22.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) colour (b) shape (c) line (d) space
- 23.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) texture (b) space (c) value (d) form
- 24.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “soft and gentle”? (a) curved lines (b) vertical lines (c) zigzag lines (d) diagonal lines
- 25.Which of these is called blending? (a) many parallel lines (b) smooth, soft tones (c) lots of tiny dots (d) lines crossing over
- 26.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the side away from light called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 27.True or false: dashes on a road looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
- 28.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) from white to black (b) a sense of near and far (c) only length and width (d) how light or dark it is
- 29.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 30.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 31.True or false: leaving it in water is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: we use a palette for mixing colours. (a) True (b) False
- 33.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) things that look biggest (b) the bottom of the page (c) the part nearest you (d) the part farthest away
- 34.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) B (b) 4B (c) HB (d) 2H
- 35.True or false: a rectangle is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 36.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a table top (b) a falling tree (c) a playground slide (d) a person standing tall
- 37.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 4H (b) HB (c) 2H (d) B
- 38.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “light first outlines”? (a) watercolour (b) pencil (c) oil pastels (d) poster colour
- 39.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) frame (c) line (d) texture
- 40.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- things that look biggest
- 7
- True
- True
- letting paint dry on it
- looks bigger
- hard, light marks
- sponge
- oil pastels
- background
- the bottom of the page
- True
- True
- space
- bad for the brush
- sits lower on the page
- square
- vertical
- 8
- 4
- pencil
- space
- form
- curved lines
- smooth, soft tones
- shadow side
- True
- only length and width
- cast shadow
- True
- False
- True
- the part farthest away
- 2H
- False
- a table top
- B
- pencil
- frame
- False
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