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.⬜⬛ Does black have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 2.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) H (c) 2B (d) 6B
- 3.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) masking tape (b) easel (c) sharpener (d) water pot
- 4.True or false: shading with smudging with a finger is called blending. (a) False (b) True
- 5.True or false: on a shaded ball, where light hits most is called the highlight. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) cuboid (c) pyramid (d) square
- 7.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) False (b) True
- 8.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 9.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “sharp and dangerous”? (a) vertical lines (b) zigzag lines (c) curved lines (d) diagonal lines
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) standing on its bristles (b) drying bristles up (c) rinsing between colours (d) reshaping the tip
- 11.💡 On a shaded ball, what is its shadow on the table called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 12.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) pencil (d) poster colour
- 13.🎯 The part of a picture your eye goes to first is the… (a) focal point (b) border (c) background (d) horizon
- 14.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) line (b) value (c) texture (d) form
- 15.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 16.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 17.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) do not smudge easily (b) see-through colour (c) grey lines for sketching (d) hard, waxy sticks
- 18.True or false: an oval is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 19.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 20.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 2H (b) B (c) 2B (d) HB
- 21.✏️ Which shading method uses smudging with a finger? (a) cross-hatching (b) stippling (c) blending (d) hatching
- 22.True or false: “how light or dark it is” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) space (b) shape (c) colour (d) glue
- 24.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 25.Which of these is the element called line? (a) the area around objects (b) a long, thin mark (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) what a rainbow shows
- 26.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) line (b) shape (c) texture (d) colour
- 27.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) what a rainbow shows (c) a flat 2D area (d) gaps between things
- 28.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) taller (b) younger (c) farther away (d) closer to you
- 29.✏️ Which pencil is harder: 4H or 2H? (a) 2H (b) 4H
- 30.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 31.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “do not smudge easily”? (a) poster colour (b) watercolour (c) wax crayons (d) pencil
- 32.Which of these is called hatching? (a) criss-cross lines (b) many parallel lines (c) lines crossing over (d) smudging with a finger
- 33.True or false: a falling tree is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 34.✏️ Which shading method uses dots packed close? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) blending (d) cross-hatching
- 35.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
- 36.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a sleeping person (b) a person standing tall (c) a playground slide (d) a table top
- 37.🖌️ Is letting paint dry on it good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 38.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) poster colour (b) wax crayons (c) watercolour (d) oil pastels
- 39.True or false: navy blue has a light value. (a) False (b) True
- 40.True or false: white has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- dark value
- H
- masking tape
- True
- True
- square
- False
- 7
- zigzag lines
- standing on its bristles
- cast shadow
- wax crayons
- focal point
- texture
- near the viewer
- bad for the brush
- grey lines for sketching
- False
- soft, dark marks
- HB
- blending
- False
- glue
- soft, dark marks
- a long, thin mark
- line
- a flat 2D area
- farther away
- 4H
- hard, light marks
- wax crayons
- many parallel lines
- False
- stippling
- soft, dark marks
- a playground slide
- bad for the brush
- watercolour
- False
- False
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