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.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) shows less detail (b) looks smaller (c) is partly hidden (d) sits lower on the page
- 2.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) its shadow on the table (b) the darker half of it (c) the dark shape it throws (d) where light hits most
- 3.🧊 Which 3D form is a football shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cube (c) sphere (d) cone
- 4.True or false: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) True (b) False
- 5.True or false: a cloud is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
- 6.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the top of the scene? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
- 7.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 8.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 9.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) value (b) space (c) line (d) texture
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks paler and bluer (b) is partly hidden (c) sits near the horizon (d) sits lower on the page
- 11.🍃 Is a paint splash a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 12.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
- 13.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) 2B (b) HB
- 14.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) shape (b) value (c) texture (d) line
- 15.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) hatching (b) stippling (c) blending (d) cross-hatching
- 16.Which of these is good brush care? (a) leaving it in water (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) letting paint dry on it (d) rinsing between colours
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) drying bristles up (c) washing with mild soap (d) leaving it in water
- 18.📏 What kind of line does ocean waves look like? (a) wavy line (b) dotted or broken line (c) straight line (d) zigzag line
- 19.True or false: a person standing tall is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 20.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) B (b) 6B (c) 4B (d) H
- 21.🧰 Which art tool do we use for giving a pencil a point? (a) round brush (b) sharpener (c) sponge (d) masking tape
- 22.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a small round brush (b) a big roller (c) a sponge (d) a wide flat brush
- 23.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) things that look biggest (b) the part in between (c) the top of the scene (d) the part farthest away
- 24.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a flag in the wind (b) a jalebi (c) a ruler’s edge (d) a row of pointy peaks
- 25.⬜⬛ Does black have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 26.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 27.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) taller (b) closer to you (c) farther away (d) younger
- 28.True or false: pencil grade 4B makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
- 29.True or false: pencil grade H makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 30.📐 Is a rectangle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 31.True or false: pencil grade H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) form (b) shape (c) space (d) colour
- 33.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) space (c) colour (d) glue
- 34.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) cross-hatching (b) hatching (c) stippling (d) blending
- 35.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 36.True or false: an object that shows less detail seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) watercolour (d) poster colour
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows more detail (b) looks smaller (c) looks paler and bluer (d) sits near the horizon
- 39.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4B (b) B (c) 4H (d) 2B
- 40.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) texture (b) value (c) frame (d) line
Answer key
- sits lower on the page
- the darker half of it
- sphere
- False
- True
- background
- good brush care
- horizontal
- texture
- sits lower on the page
- organic shape
- foreground
- 2B
- value
- hatching
- rinsing between colours
- leaving it in water
- wavy line
- False
- H
- sharpener
- a small round brush
- things that look biggest
- a row of pointy peaks
- dark value
- 8
- farther away
- True
- False
- a 2D shape
- True
- shape
- glue
- hatching
- soft, dark marks
- False
- wax crayons
- shows more detail
- 4H
- frame
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