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 a flower petal a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 2.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) poster colour (b) pencil (c) oil pastels (d) wax crayons
- 3.What do we use an easel for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) dabbing soft textures (c) giving a pencil a point (d) holding a board upright
- 4.📏 What kind of line does a laser beam look like? (a) straight line (b) dotted or broken line (c) wavy line (d) zigzag line
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cone (b) circle (c) sphere (d) cuboid
- 6.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) shadow side (b) cast shadow (c) highlight
- 7.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 8.⬜⬛ Does white have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 9.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 10.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 4B (b) HB (c) 4H (d) H
- 11.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 12.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a playground slide (b) a sleeping person (c) a falling tree (d) a leaning ladder
- 13.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 14.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “calm and resting”? (a) zigzag lines (b) diagonal lines (c) curved lines (d) horizontal lines
- 15.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) bright, flat colour (b) mixed with lots of water (c) soft, creamy sticks (d) do not smudge easily
- 16.True or false: the edge of a calm sea is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: pencil grade B makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 18.True or false: pencil grade 4B makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
- 19.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) letting paint dry on it (c) rinsing between colours (d) leaving it in water
- 20.Which of these is the element called value? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) how light or dark it is (c) gaps between things (d) a solid 3D object
- 21.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) sponge (b) easel (c) flat brush (d) masking tape
- 22.True or false: we use a palette for mixing colours. (a) True (b) False
- 23.📏 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
- 24.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) 4B (c) 2B (d) H
- 25.True or false: we use masking tape for rinsing brushes. (a) True (b) False
- 26.True or false: “a hue, like red or blue” is the element called colour. (a) False (b) True
- 27.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding a board upright? (a) sponge (b) flat brush (c) sharpener (d) easel
- 29.🧰 Which art tool do we use for rinsing brushes? (a) flat brush (b) water pot (c) easel (d) round brush
- 30.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a sense of near and far (b) has height, width, depth (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) how a surface feels
- 31.True or false: a falling tree is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) form (b) line (c) easel (d) value
- 33.True or false: a square is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 34.True or false: we use a round brush for fine lines and details. (a) True (b) False
- 35.⬜⬛ Does pale yellow have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 36.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a sculpture (b) a shape (c) a form (d) a cube
- 37.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) closer to you (b) taller (c) younger (d) farther away
- 38.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a ruler’s edge (b) a lightning bolt (c) a jalebi (d) a tightly pulled rope
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks bigger (b) shows more detail (c) sits lower on the page (d) shows less detail
- 40.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) oval (b) cuboid (c) triangle (d) circle
Answer key
- organic shape
- wax crayons
- holding a board upright
- straight line
- circle
- highlight
- near the viewer
- light value
- 7
- 4B
- soft, dark marks
- a sleeping person
- light value
- horizontal lines
- soft, creamy sticks
- False
- False
- True
- rinsing between colours
- how light or dark it is
- masking tape
- True
- a spiral
- H
- False
- True
- False
- easel
- water pot
- a sense of near and far
- True
- easel
- True
- True
- light value
- a shape
- farther away
- a lightning bolt
- shows less detail
- cuboid
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