Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 785 · 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.🖌️ Is letting paint dry on it good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
2. 2.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
3. 3.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a zigzag (b) a straight line (c) a spiral (d) a dotted line
4. 4.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) far hills and the sky (b) the part in between (c) the top of the scene (d) the part nearest you
5. 5.What do we use an easel for? (a) dabbing soft textures (b) holding a board upright (c) holding paper flat (d) fine lines and details
6. 6.True or false: reshaping the tip is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) soft, creamy sticks (c) do not smudge easily (d) thick, opaque paint
8. 8.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
9. 9.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
10. 10.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) value (b) form (c) space (d) line
11. 11.True or false: a puddle is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) blending (d) cross-hatching
13. 13.📏 What kind of line does a wriggling snake look like? (a) zigzag line (b) straight line (c) spiral line (d) wavy line
14. 14.True or false: an object that looks bigger seems far away. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) dashes on a road (b) the teeth of a saw (c) ocean waves (d) a wriggling snake
16. 16.💡 On a shaded ball, what is where light hits most called? (a) cast shadow (b) highlight (c) shadow side
17. 17.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) spiral line (b) wavy line (c) dotted or broken line (d) straight line
18. 18.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) cube (b) sphere (c) cone (d) circle
19. 19.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) poster colour (b) pencil (c) oil pastels (d) watercolour
20. 20.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a solid 3D object (b) gaps between things (c) the area around objects (d) only length and width
21. 21.📐 Is a cylinder a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
22. 22.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a sponge (b) a wide flat brush (c) a small round brush (d) a big roller
23. 23.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a brick (b) a football (c) an ice-cream cone (d) a drinking straw
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cylinder (b) rectangle (c) pyramid (d) cuboid
25. 25.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) looks paler and bluer (b) shows less detail (c) looks smaller (d) overlaps other things
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) leaving it in water (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) letting paint dry on it (d) drying bristles up
27. 27.True or false: pencil grade 2B makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “calm and resting”? (a) zigzag lines (b) diagonal lines (c) horizontal lines (d) curved lines
29. 29.Which of these is good brush care? (a) washing with mild soap (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) standing on its bristles (d) leaving it in water
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) leaving it in water (b) letting paint dry on it (c) reshaping the tip (d) scrubbing hard on paper
31. 31.📐 Is a cone a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
32. 32.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) star (b) cube (c) cone (d) sphere
33. 33.📐 Is a square a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
34. 34.Which of these is called stippling? (a) criss-cross lines (b) lines all one way (c) lots of tiny dots (d) smooth, soft tones
35. 35.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) with paint on it (b) bristles up or flat (c) in the water pot (d) bristles down
36. 36.Which of these is called blending? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) criss-cross lines (c) many parallel lines (d) dots packed close
37. 37.True or false: “what a rainbow shows” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
39. 39.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) where light hits most (b) its shadow on the table (c) the brightest spot (d) the side away from light
40. 40.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching

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