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.What do we use a round brush for? (a) rinsing brushes (b) fine lines and details (c) wide, straight strokes (d) dabbing soft textures
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pyramid (b) sphere (c) cube (d) square
- 3.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 4.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of poster colour. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) space (b) texture (c) line (d) shape
- 6.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks bigger seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 7.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the background. (a) True (b) False
- 8.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 2B (b) 6B (c) B (d) 4H
- 9.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 10.True or false: a cylinder is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 11.🍃 Is a square a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 12.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) form (b) value (c) shape (d) texture
- 13.True or false: a snail shell looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
- 14.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) a solid 3D object (c) a closed flat outline (d) only length and width
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rectangle (b) star (c) sphere (d) triangle
- 16.True or false: dashes on a road looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 17.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a laser beam (b) the teeth of a saw (c) a ruler’s edge (d) ocean waves
- 18.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 19.🖌️ Is letting paint dry on it good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 20.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) taller (b) farther away (c) closer to you (d) younger
- 21.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 22.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of a pencil. (a) True (b) False
- 23.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) texture (b) frame (c) line (d) value
- 24.True or false: “has height, width, depth” is the element called texture. (a) True (b) False
- 25.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a table top (b) a person standing tall (c) a falling tree (d) a leaning ladder
- 26.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a standing tree trunk (b) a table top (c) a person standing tall (d) a playground slide
- 27.Which of these is the element called form? (a) has height, width, depth (b) a moving dot’s path (c) the area around objects (d) a sense of near and far
- 28.🧱 Which element of art is “a solid 3D object”? (a) line (b) form (c) space (d) colour
- 29.🧊 Which 3D form is a dice shaped like? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) cube (d) sphere
- 30.True or false: a square is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🍃 Is a circle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 32.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “grey lines for sketching”? (a) wax crayons (b) pencil (c) poster colour (d) oil pastels
- 33.True or false: a sleeping person is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 34.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the background. (a) False (b) True
- 35.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 36.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) stippling (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) blending
- 37.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) colour (b) shape (c) space (d) glue
- 38.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) shadow side (b) highlight (c) cast shadow
- 39.🖌️ Is drying bristles up good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 40.True or false: an object that looks paler and bluer seems far away. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- fine lines and details
- square
- organic shape
- False
- line
- near the viewer
- True
- 4H
- medium marks
- False
- geometric shape
- value
- False
- a hue, like red or blue
- sphere
- True
- ocean waves
- vertical
- bad for the brush
- farther away
- 8
- True
- frame
- False
- a person standing tall
- a table top
- has height, width, depth
- form
- cube
- True
- geometric shape
- pencil
- False
- False
- soft, dark marks
- hatching
- glue
- shadow side
- good brush care
- True
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