Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 8 · 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 rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
2. 2.True or false: a coiled rope looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4B (b) 2B (c) 2H (d) B
4. 4.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding a board upright? (a) sponge (b) round brush (c) easel (d) water pot
5. 5.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) holding a board upright (b) holding paper flat (c) dabbing soft textures (d) giving a pencil a point
6. 6.🧱 Which element of art is “only length and width”? (a) colour (b) value (c) space (d) shape
7. 7.Which of these is called hatching? (a) lines crossing over (b) many parallel lines (c) criss-cross lines (d) dots packed close
8. 8.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
9. 9.Which of these is the element called form? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) can be seen all round (c) the area around objects (d) a sense of near and far
10. 10.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) pencil (b) charcoal (c) watercolour (d) poster colour
11. 11.True or false: a rectangle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: pencil grade 4B makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) a flat 2D area (b) what a rainbow shows (c) rough, smooth or bumpy (d) only length and width
14. 14.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “light first outlines”? (a) watercolour (b) pencil (c) poster colour (d) wax crayons
15. 15.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) cone (b) sphere (c) square (d) cube
16. 16.🖌️ Which brush is best for painting a wide, even sky? (a) a toothpick (b) a pencil (c) a wide flat brush (d) a small round brush
17. 17.✏️ Which shading method uses smooth, soft tones? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) blending (d) cross-hatching
18. 18.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) pencil (d) watercolour
19. 19.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) space (b) shape (c) line (d) texture
20. 20.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
22. 22.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part nearest you (b) things that look biggest (c) the part farthest away (d) the bottom of the page
23. 23.True or false: a leaning ladder is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.📐 Is a circle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
25. 25.🖌️ Is reshaping the tip good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
26. 26.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a closed flat outline (b) a hue, like red or blue (c) how light or dark it is (d) can be seen all round
27. 27.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) stitches on cloth (b) a laser beam (c) ocean waves (d) dashes on a road
28. 28.True or false: an object that looks bigger seems far away. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: washing with mild soap is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: a playground slide is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “proud and steady”? (a) horizontal lines (b) curved lines (c) zigzag lines (d) vertical lines
32. 32.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
33. 33.True or false: rinsing between colours is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
35. 35.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a falling tree (c) a sleeping person (d) a person standing tall
36. 36.Which of these is the element called value? (a) a solid 3D object (b) from white to black (c) a flat 2D area (d) only length and width
37. 37.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) form (b) colour (c) value (d) shape
38. 38.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks bigger seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) overlaps other things (b) shows less detail (c) sits lower on the page (d) looks bigger
40. 40.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) a tightly pulled rope (c) a snail shell (d) ocean waves

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