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 art tool do we use for holding a board upright? (a) water pot (b) flat brush (c) masking tape (d) easel
- 2.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) shadow side (b) highlight (c) cast shadow
- 3.Which of these is called blending? (a) many parallel lines (b) smudging with a finger (c) dots packed close (d) lines crossing over
- 4.True or false: pencil grade 6B makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🧱 Which element of art is “looks furry or scaly”? (a) colour (b) shape (c) value (d) texture
- 6.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the background. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 8.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 9.True or false: on a shaded ball, the darker half of it is called the shadow side. (a) True (b) False
- 10.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 11.🧰 Which art tool do we use for dabbing soft textures? (a) flat brush (b) masking tape (c) sponge (d) round brush
- 12.True or false: we use a flat brush for wide, straight strokes. (a) True (b) False
- 13.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 14.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 6B (b) 2B
- 15.✏️ Which pencil makes lighter lines: HB or 2H? (a) HB (b) 2H
- 16.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) rinsing brushes (c) mixing colours (d) giving a pencil a point
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) washing with mild soap (b) rinsing between colours (c) reshaping the tip (d) leaving it in water
- 18.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a party hat (b) a marble (c) an ice-cream cone (d) a dice
- 19.True or false: a rectangle is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🖌️ Is washing with mild soap good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 21.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) soft, light washes (c) bright, flat colour (d) see-through colour
- 22.True or false: pencil grade HB makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 23.True or false: “looks furry or scaly” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) line (b) form (c) texture (d) space
- 25.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) zigzag lines (b) vertical lines (c) diagonal lines (d) horizontal lines
- 26.🖌️ Which brush is best for painting a wide, even sky? (a) a wide flat brush (b) a toothpick (c) a small round brush (d) a pencil
- 27.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 28.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) triangle (b) cone (c) rectangle (d) oval
- 29.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a wide flat brush (b) a sponge (c) a big roller (d) a small round brush
- 30.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) space (d) texture
- 31.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a marble (b) a dice (c) a football (d) an ice-cream cone
- 32.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) reshaping the tip (b) washing with mild soap (c) rinsing between colours (d) scrubbing hard on paper
- 33.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of a pencil. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🧊 Which 3D form is a drinking straw shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) cone (c) cube (d) cylinder
- 35.True or false: pencil grade B makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🧊 Which 3D form is a globe shaped like? (a) cube (b) cylinder (c) cone (d) sphere
- 37.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) blending
- 38.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) smudging with a finger (b) lines all one way (c) lines crossing over (d) dots packed close
- 39.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) a long, thin mark (c) looks furry or scaly (d) what a rainbow shows
- 40.Which of these is good brush care? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) standing on its bristles (c) reshaping the tip (d) letting paint dry on it
Answer key
- easel
- highlight
- smudging with a finger
- False
- texture
- False
- 7
- True
- True
- horizontal
- sponge
- True
- near the viewer
- 6B
- 2H
- giving a pencil a point
- leaving it in water
- a marble
- True
- good brush care
- bright, flat colour
- True
- False
- texture
- vertical lines
- a wide flat brush
- True
- cone
- a small round brush
- texture
- an ice-cream cone
- scrubbing hard on paper
- False
- cylinder
- False
- sphere
- stippling
- lines crossing over
- what a rainbow shows
- reshaping the tip
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