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.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 2.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) thick, opaque paint (c) see-through colour (d) blend with a fingertip
- 3.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 6B (b) 2B
- 4.🔭 In a picture, an object that overlaps other things seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 5.True or false: “soft, light washes” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) True (b) False
- 6.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) curved lines (b) diagonal lines (c) horizontal lines (d) vertical lines
- 7.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 8.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) form (b) texture (c) line (d) shape
- 9.True or false: pencil grade 6B makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 10.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) H (b) 6B (c) HB (d) 2B
- 11.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 4H (b) 6B (c) HB (d) 2H
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) drying bristles up (b) standing on its bristles (c) letting paint dry on it (d) leaving it in water
- 13.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a spiral (b) a zigzag (c) a straight line (d) a dotted line
- 14.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “moving fast”? (a) diagonal lines (b) zigzag lines (c) curved lines (d) vertical lines
- 15.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 16.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 2B (b) HB (c) 6B (d) 4H
- 17.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) where light hits most (b) the darker half of it (c) the side away from light (d) its shadow on the table
- 18.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
- 19.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “light first outlines”? (a) oil pastels (b) pencil (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
- 20.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks paler and bluer seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 21.📏 Draw a tall lamp post with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 22.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “excited or nervous”? (a) diagonal lines (b) horizontal lines (c) zigzag lines (d) vertical lines
- 23.🖌️ Is reshaping the tip good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 24.True or false: we use a sponge for holding a board upright. (a) False (b) True
- 25.True or false: a square is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
- 26.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a globe (b) a sugar cube (c) a football (d) a matchbox
- 27.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) wavy line (b) dotted or broken line (c) zigzag line (d) spiral line
- 28.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) space (b) line (c) value (d) texture
- 29.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
- 30.📏 What kind of line does stitches on cloth look like? (a) zigzag line (b) dotted or broken line (c) spiral line (d) wavy line
- 31.True or false: a jalebi looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) washing with mild soap (b) reshaping the tip (c) rinsing between colours (d) scrubbing hard on paper
- 33.True or false: an object that shows more detail seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 34.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part in between (b) far hills and the sky (c) things that look biggest (d) the part nearest you
- 35.True or false: an object that shows less detail seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🧊 Which 3D form is a dice shaped like? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) sphere (d) cube
- 37.⬜⬛ Does white have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 38.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “calm and resting”? (a) diagonal lines (b) curved lines (c) horizontal lines (d) vertical lines
- 39.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 40.🛤️ Where does the vanishing point sit? (a) at the bottom edge (b) on the horizon line (c) on the frame (d) in the foreground
Answer key
- good brush care
- see-through colour
- 6B
- near the viewer
- False
- vertical lines
- 7
- texture
- False
- HB
- 6B
- drying bristles up
- a spiral
- diagonal lines
- 2
- 4H
- its shadow on the table
- 4
- pencil
- far away
- vertical
- zigzag lines
- good brush care
- False
- True
- a sugar cube
- wavy line
- texture
- False
- dotted or broken line
- False
- scrubbing hard on paper
- True
- far hills and the sky
- True
- cube
- light value
- horizontal lines
- foreground
- on the horizon line
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