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.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) sits near the horizon (b) sits lower on the page (c) shows more detail (d) overlaps other things
- 2.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 3.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) blending (b) stippling (c) cross-hatching (d) hatching
- 4.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) hatching (b) blending (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
- 5.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a straight line (b) a zigzag line (c) a dotted line (d) a wavy line
- 6.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 7.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) watercolour (b) wax crayons (c) oil pastels (d) poster colour
- 8.🧱 Which element of art is “a solid 3D object”? (a) colour (b) line (c) value (d) form
- 9.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) standing on its bristles (b) washing with mild soap (c) rinsing between colours (d) reshaping the tip
- 10.True or false: shading with criss-cross lines is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 11.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the top of the scene (b) the part farthest away (c) the part in between (d) things that look biggest
- 12.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a sugar cube (b) a matchbox (c) a brick (d) a marble
- 13.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 14.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) texture (b) value (c) line (d) space
- 15.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a long, thin mark (b) what a rainbow shows (c) the area around objects (d) a solid 3D object
- 16.True or false: an object that overlaps other things seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) elbows (b) knees (c) eyes (d) feet
- 18.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 19.True or false: a jalebi looks like a straight line. (a) False (b) True
- 20.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 21.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4B (b) B (c) 2B (d) 2H
- 22.True or false: “rough, smooth or bumpy” is the element called line. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🧰 Which art tool do we use for dabbing soft textures? (a) palette (b) masking tape (c) sharpener (d) sponge
- 24.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) dashes on a road (b) a cut-here line (c) a ruler’s edge (d) the teeth of a saw
- 25.🖌️ Is letting paint dry on it good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 26.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) B (b) 4H (c) H (d) HB
- 27.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 28.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) stippling (b) blending (c) hatching (d) cross-hatching
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) washing with mild soap (c) leaving it in water (d) rinsing between colours
- 30.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits near the horizon seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 31.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) drying bristles up (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) washing with mild soap (d) reshaping the tip
- 32.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) rectangle (b) star (c) sphere (d) triangle
- 33.True or false: “soft, light washes” is a feature of a pencil. (a) True (b) False
- 34.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) a flag in the wind (c) a tightly pulled rope (d) stitches on cloth
- 35.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) spiral line (b) wavy line (c) straight line (d) dotted or broken line
- 36.True or false: drying bristles up is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 37.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) ocean waves (b) stitches on cloth (c) a ruler’s edge (d) a lightning bolt
- 38.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 39.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) white to black (b) near to far (c) red to blue (d) big to small
- 40.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) has height, width, depth (c) looks furry or scaly (d) a closed flat outline
Answer key
- sits near the horizon
- 8
- cross-hatching
- hatching
- a wavy line
- near the viewer
- poster colour
- form
- standing on its bristles
- False
- things that look biggest
- a sugar cube
- hard, light marks
- texture
- what a rainbow shows
- True
- eyes
- False
- False
- medium marks
- 2H
- False
- sponge
- a ruler’s edge
- bad for the brush
- HB
- bad for the brush
- hatching
- leaving it in water
- far away
- scrubbing hard on paper
- sphere
- False
- a tightly pulled rope
- dotted or broken line
- True
- a lightning bolt
- 7
- white to black
- a closed flat outline
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