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.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 2.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 3.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a falling tree (b) the edge of a calm sea (c) a playground slide (d) a standing tree trunk
- 4.What do we use a sponge for? (a) giving a pencil a point (b) holding paper flat (c) holding a board upright (d) dabbing soft textures
- 5.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
- 6.Which of these is called blending? (a) criss-cross lines (b) dots packed close (c) smudging with a finger (d) lots of tiny dots
- 7.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks smaller seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 8.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) reshaping the tip (b) rinsing between colours (c) leaving it in water (d) drying bristles up
- 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) washing with mild soap (b) standing on its bristles (c) drying bristles up (d) reshaping the tip
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) reshaping the tip (c) leaving it in water (d) drying bristles up
- 11.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter H stand for? (a) high (b) hot (c) heavy (d) hard
- 12.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a playground slide (b) a standing tree trunk (c) a tall lamp post (d) a sleeping person
- 13.True or false: pencil grade 6B makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
- 14.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a solid 3D object (b) a flat 2D area (c) a long, thin mark (d) can be seen all round
- 15.True or false: a triangle is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
- 17.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 18.🔭 In a picture, an object that is partly hidden seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 19.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a tightly pulled rope (b) a cut-here line (c) a jalebi (d) a wriggling snake
- 20.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
- 21.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
- 22.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the background. (a) True (b) False
- 23.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) blending
- 24.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 25.True or false: pale yellow has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 26.True or false: dark grey has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🧰 Which art tool do we use for wide, straight strokes? (a) round brush (b) easel (c) sponge (d) flat brush
- 28.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
- 29.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a standing tree trunk (b) a falling tree (c) a table top (d) a sleeping person
- 30.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 31.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) texture (b) colour (c) line (d) space
- 32.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) pyramid (b) triangle (c) cone (d) cylinder
- 33.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) see-through colour (b) bright, flat colour (c) thick, opaque paint (d) light first outlines
- 34.True or false: “blend with a fingertip” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 36.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) oil pastels (b) watercolour (c) pencil (d) poster colour
- 37.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 38.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) texture (b) shape (c) line (d) form
- 39.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “sharp and dangerous”? (a) diagonal lines (b) vertical lines (c) horizontal lines (d) zigzag lines
- 40.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) zigzag line (c) straight line (d) spiral line
Answer key
- good brush care
- light value
- a standing tree trunk
- dabbing soft textures
- True
- smudging with a finger
- far away
- leaving it in water
- standing on its bristles
- leaving it in water
- hard
- a sleeping person
- False
- a flat 2D area
- False
- 4
- 7
- far away
- a wriggling snake
- True
- horizontal
- False
- hatching
- bad for the brush
- False
- False
- flat brush
- hard, light marks
- a falling tree
- organic shape
- line
- triangle
- see-through colour
- False
- foreground
- watercolour
- 8
- form
- zigzag lines
- dotted or broken line
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