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 element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) shape (b) line (c) texture (d) value
- 2.Which of these is the element called value? (a) from white to black (b) a flat 2D area (c) a long, thin mark (d) a sense of near and far
- 3.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a laser beam (b) a wriggling snake (c) a jalebi (d) dashes on a road
- 4.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “grey lines for sketching”? (a) pencil (b) poster colour (c) oil pastels (d) watercolour
- 5.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a big roller (b) a small round brush (c) a sponge (d) a wide flat brush
- 6.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 7.🧰 Which art tool do we use for giving a pencil a point? (a) sharpener (b) sponge (c) round brush (d) easel
- 8.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) form (b) texture (c) colour (d) value
- 10.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) do not smudge easily (b) see-through colour (c) thick, opaque paint (d) soft, creamy sticks
- 11.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) washing with mild soap (d) rinsing between colours
- 13.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 14.True or false: a square is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
- 15.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) masking tape (b) palette (c) water pot (d) round brush
- 17.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called value. (a) False (b) True
- 18.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) far hills and the sky (b) the part farthest away (c) the part nearest you (d) the part in between
- 19.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) the brightest spot (b) the dark shape it throws (c) the darker half of it (d) its shadow on the table
- 20.True or false: dark grey has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 21.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) a long, thin mark (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) the area around objects
- 22.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) white to black (b) big to small (c) near to far (d) red to blue
- 23.Which of these is called stippling? (a) criss-cross lines (b) dots packed close (c) lines all one way (d) many parallel lines
- 24.📏 What kind of line does dashes on a road look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) zigzag line
- 25.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) shows less detail (b) looks smaller (c) overlaps other things (d) looks paler and bluer
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) washing with mild soap (c) drying bristles up (d) standing on its bristles
- 27.True or false: a jalebi looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) form (b) line (c) space (d) value
- 29.Which of these is the element called form? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) the area around objects (c) has height, width, depth (d) what a rainbow shows
- 30.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 31.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a spiral (b) a straight line (c) a dotted line (d) a zigzag
- 32.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 33.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) standing on its bristles (b) reshaping the tip (c) drying bristles up (d) washing with mild soap
- 34.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) feet (b) knees (c) elbows (d) eyes
- 35.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows less detail seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 36.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 37.True or false: pencil grade HB makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 38.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part in between (b) the bottom of the page (c) things that look biggest (d) far hills and the sky
- 39.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) palette (b) round brush (c) water pot (d) flat brush
- 40.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) shows more detail (b) sits lower on the page (c) shows less detail (d) overlaps other things
Answer key
- value
- from white to black
- dashes on a road
- pencil
- a small round brush
- highlight
- sharpener
- False
- texture
- soft, creamy sticks
- 7
- scrubbing hard on paper
- 8
- True
- False
- masking tape
- False
- the part nearest you
- the darker half of it
- True
- rough, smooth or bumpy
- white to black
- dots packed close
- dotted or broken line
- overlaps other things
- standing on its bristles
- True
- space
- has height, width, depth
- False
- a spiral
- near the viewer
- standing on its bristles
- eyes
- far away
- background
- True
- far hills and the sky
- palette
- shows less detail
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