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 of these is good brush care? (a) leaving it in water (b) letting paint dry on it (c) reshaping the tip (d) scrubbing hard on paper
- 2.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 3.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 brightest spot (d) the dark shape it throws
- 4.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 5.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) do not smudge easily (b) thick, opaque paint (c) see-through colour (d) light first outlines
- 6.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 3D form (b) a flat outline (c) a 2D shape
- 7.Which of these is the element called line? (a) can be seen all round (b) how light or dark it is (c) a long, thin mark (d) how a surface feels
- 8.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) shape (b) texture (c) value (d) line
- 9.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a dice (b) a party hat (c) a brick (d) a sugar cube
- 10.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called cross-hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 11.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) watercolour (b) poster colour (c) pencil (d) wax crayons
- 12.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) grey lines for sketching (c) blend with a fingertip (d) hard, waxy sticks
- 13.What do we use a round brush for? (a) fine lines and details (b) holding paper flat (c) dabbing soft textures (d) wide, straight strokes
- 14.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called line. (a) False (b) True
- 15.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 16.True or false: white has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: a snail shell looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 18.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) light first outlines (b) soft, creamy sticks (c) mixed with lots of water (d) see-through colour
- 19.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 6B (b) 2B (c) HB (d) 2H
- 20.True or false: pencil grade 2B makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
- 21.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 22.True or false: an oval is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 23.📐 Is a cylinder a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 24.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 25.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 26.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the top of the scene? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
- 28.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) watercolour (b) poster colour (c) oil pastels (d) pencil
- 29.True or false: an object that is partly hidden seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 30.📏 What kind of line does a lightning bolt look like? (a) straight line (b) spiral line (c) wavy line (d) zigzag line
- 31.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) where light hits most (b) the brightest spot (c) its shadow on the table (d) the side away from light
- 32.🧊 Which 3D form is a football shaped like? (a) cone (b) sphere (c) cube (d) cuboid
- 33.Which of these is called stippling? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) criss-cross lines (c) lines all one way (d) lots of tiny dots
- 34.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the middle ground. (a) False (b) True
- 35.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called stippling. (a) False (b) True
- 36.True or false: a table top is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: “looks furry or scaly” is the element called shape. (a) True (b) False
- 38.⬜⬛ Does dark brown have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 39.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 6B (b) 4H (c) 4B (d) HB
- 40.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) spiral line (b) zigzag line (c) straight line (d) wavy line
Answer key
- reshaping the tip
- bad for the brush
- the dark shape it throws
- soft, dark marks
- see-through colour
- a 3D form
- a long, thin mark
- line
- a brick
- True
- watercolour
- mixed with lots of water
- fine lines and details
- False
- dark value
- True
- False
- soft, creamy sticks
- HB
- False
- False
- False
- a 3D form
- cast shadow
- vertical
- True
- background
- watercolour
- False
- zigzag line
- the side away from light
- sphere
- lots of tiny dots
- False
- True
- True
- False
- dark value
- 4H
- wavy line
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