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 moving dot’s path” is the element called line. (a) False (b) True
- 2.True or false: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) True (b) False
- 3.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) colour (b) space (c) glue (d) shape
- 4.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 6.True or false: ocean waves looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) texture (d) space
- 8.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a traffic cone (b) a shoe box (c) a football (d) a drinking straw
- 9.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) a solid 3D object (b) how light or dark it is (c) has height, width, depth (d) how a surface feels
- 10.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) wax crayons (b) watercolour (c) oil pastels (d) poster colour
- 11.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “soft and gentle”? (a) diagonal lines (b) curved lines (c) vertical lines (d) zigzag lines
- 12.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) blend with a fingertip (b) thick, opaque paint (c) grey lines for sketching (d) see-through colour
- 13.True or false: a square is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 15.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) horizontal lines (b) vertical lines (c) curved lines (d) zigzag lines
- 16.True or false: on a shaded ball, the darker half of it is called the shadow side. (a) True (b) False
- 17.📏 What kind of line does a tightly pulled rope look like? (a) zigzag line (b) straight line (c) dotted or broken line (d) wavy line
- 18.🖼️ In the rule of thirds, where should the main subject go? (a) in a corner (b) at the very edge (c) off the page (d) where the lines cross
- 19.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
- 20.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) dashes on a road (b) a tightly pulled rope (c) a flag in the wind (d) a laser beam
- 21.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 22.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) hot oil (b) water and mild soap (c) sand (d) glue
- 23.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 24.🧊 How many flat faces does a cube have?
- 25.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) sphere (b) cube (c) square (d) cone
- 26.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks smaller seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 27.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) the area around objects (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) can be seen all round (d) a long, thin mark
- 28.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) stippling
- 29.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a flag in the wind (b) a laser beam (c) a snail shell (d) a coiled rope
- 30.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called blending. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) shape (b) texture (c) value (d) space
- 32.🧊 Which 3D form is a candle shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cuboid (c) sphere (d) cone
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) rinsing between colours (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) drying bristles up
- 34.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) zigzag line
- 35.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a snail shell (b) a ruler’s edge (c) a tightly pulled rope (d) ocean waves
- 36.True or false: pencil grade B makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🧰 Which art tool do we use for dabbing soft textures? (a) sharpener (b) masking tape (c) sponge (d) palette
- 38.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) hatching
- 39.True or false: a cuboid is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 40.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) poster colour (b) wax crayons (c) watercolour (d) oil pastels
Answer key
- True
- False
- glue
- False
- geometric shape
- False
- texture
- a shoe box
- how a surface feels
- watercolour
- curved lines
- thick, opaque paint
- True
- 7
- zigzag lines
- True
- straight line
- where the lines cross
- False
- a flag in the wind
- hard, light marks
- water and mild soap
- dark value
- 6
- sphere
- far away
- rough, smooth or bumpy
- cross-hatching
- a laser beam
- False
- space
- cylinder
- scrubbing hard on paper
- zigzag line
- ocean waves
- False
- sponge
- hatching
- False
- poster colour
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