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.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 2.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) oil pastels (b) pencil (c) poster colour (d) wax crayons
- 3.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) line (b) colour (c) shape (d) texture
- 4.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) the dark shape it throws (b) where light hits most (c) its shadow on the table (d) the darker half of it
- 5.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “grey lines for sketching”? (a) pencil (b) oil pastels (c) wax crayons (d) watercolour
- 6.True or false: “rough, smooth or bumpy” is the element called form. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🧱 Which element of art is “a solid 3D object”? (a) shape (b) colour (c) form (d) space
- 8.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 9.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, light washes”? (a) poster colour (b) watercolour (c) oil pastels (d) wax crayons
- 10.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) gaps between things (b) how a surface feels (c) a moving dot’s path (d) a hue, like red or blue
- 11.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 12.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) water and mild soap (b) hot oil (c) glue (d) sand
- 13.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) cube (b) star (c) square (d) oval
- 14.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a sleeping person (b) a person standing tall (c) a table top (d) a leaning ladder
- 15.True or false: a tightly pulled rope looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 16.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) stitches on cloth (b) a cut-here line (c) a flag in the wind (d) a lightning bolt
- 17.True or false: a sleeping person is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
- 18.📐 Is a star a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 19.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) bright, flat colour (b) soft, creamy sticks (c) see-through colour (d) mixed with lots of water
- 20.🖌️ Which brush is best for painting a wide, even sky? (a) a small round brush (b) a wide flat brush (c) a toothpick (d) a pencil
- 21.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “flowing and graceful”? (a) vertical lines (b) curved lines (c) zigzag lines (d) horizontal lines
- 22.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) white to black (b) near to far (c) big to small (d) red to blue
- 23.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) 4B (c) 6B (d) H
- 24.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 25.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape (c) a flat outline
- 26.True or false: “a hue, like red or blue” is the element called line. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🖌️ Is drying bristles up good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 28.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “do not smudge easily”? (a) oil pastels (b) poster colour (c) pencil (d) wax crayons
- 29.True or false: “a closed flat outline” is the element called line. (a) True (b) False
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) circle (b) square (c) sphere (d) triangle
- 31.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 32.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) horizontal lines (b) curved lines (c) zigzag lines (d) diagonal lines
- 33.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part nearest you (b) the part farthest away (c) far hills and the sky (d) the part in between
- 34.🍃 Is a puddle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 35.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) vanishing point (b) border (c) highlight (d) foreground
- 36.🧊 Which 3D form is a matchbox shaped like? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) cube (d) sphere
- 37.True or false: a table top is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) with paint on it (b) bristles up or flat (c) bristles down (d) in the water pot
- 39.🛤️ Where does the vanishing point sit? (a) in the foreground (b) on the horizon line (c) on the frame (d) at the bottom edge
- 40.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
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- wax crayons
- texture
- the darker half of it
- pencil
- False
- form
- light value
- watercolour
- a hue, like red or blue
- background
- water and mild soap
- cube
- a leaning ladder
- False
- a lightning bolt
- False
- a 2D shape
- bright, flat colour
- a wide flat brush
- curved lines
- white to black
- H
- 8
- a 3D form
- False
- good brush care
- wax crayons
- False
- sphere
- dark value
- zigzag lines
- the part nearest you
- organic shape
- vanishing point
- cuboid
- True
- bristles up or flat
- on the horizon line
- False
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