Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 737 · 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.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part in between is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part in between? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
3. 3.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
4. 4.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) a sense of near and far (c) looks furry or scaly (d) a moving dot’s path
5. 5.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
6. 6.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) the teeth of a saw (b) a ruler’s edge (c) a snail shell (d) stitches on cloth
7. 7.📏 What kind of line does a laser beam look like? (a) zigzag line (b) dotted or broken line (c) spiral line (d) straight line
8. 8.True or false: shading with lots of tiny dots is called stippling. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.✏️ With one pencil, how do you make your shading darker? (a) use an eraser (b) press lighter (c) add water (d) press harder
10. 10.True or false: a falling tree is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) texture (b) shape (c) value (d) line
12. 12.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
13. 13.Which of these is the element called value? (a) looks furry or scaly (b) how light or dark it is (c) a sense of near and far (d) a hue, like red or blue
14. 14.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) form (b) value (c) colour (d) line
15. 15.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called line. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
17. 17.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a football (b) a candle (c) a dice (d) a matchbox
18. 18.💡 The light comes from the LEFT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) on the left side (b) above the object (c) on the right side (d) inside the object
19. 19.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
20. 20.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
21. 21.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
22. 22.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) oil pastels (b) pencil (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
23. 23.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) soft, light washes (b) see-through colour (c) do not smudge easily (d) mixed with lots of water
24. 24.📐 Is a square a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
25. 25.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) the side away from light (b) its shadow on the table (c) where light hits most (d) the dark shape it throws
26. 26.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a long, thin mark (b) a solid 3D object (c) gaps between things (d) from white to black
27. 27.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a laser beam (b) a cut-here line (c) a lightning bolt (d) a coiled rope
28. 28.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) cone (b) circle (c) triangle (d) star
29. 29.Which of these is called stippling? (a) dots packed close (b) smudging with a finger (c) lines crossing over (d) lines all one way
30. 30.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
31. 31.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part nearest you (b) the bottom of the page (c) far hills and the sky (d) the part in between
32. 32.📏 Draw a falling tree with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
33. 33.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) mixed with lots of water (d) thick, opaque paint
34. 34.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
35. 35.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a matchbox (b) a dice (c) a football (d) a traffic cone
36. 36.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) value (b) space (c) line (d) form
37. 37.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter H stand for? (a) high (b) hot (c) hard (d) heavy
38. 38.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4B (b) 4H (c) HB (d) B
39. 39.Which of these is called blending? (a) criss-cross lines (b) lines crossing over (c) many parallel lines (d) smudging with a finger
40. 40.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True

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