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.True or false: a coiled rope looks like a spiral line. (a) False (b) True
- 2.True or false: white has a light value. (a) False (b) True
- 3.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) oil pastels (b) watercolour (c) poster colour (d) wax crayons
- 4.Which of these is the element called value? (a) the area around objects (b) has height, width, depth (c) a moving dot’s path (d) how light or dark it is
- 5.True or false: an object that shows less detail seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 6.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) grey lines for sketching (c) mixed with lots of water (d) blend with a fingertip
- 7.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) texture (c) frame (d) value
- 8.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) B (b) 2H (c) 4H (d) H
- 9.True or false: a falling tree is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
- 10.True or false: “how a surface feels” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) star (c) cuboid (d) sphere
- 12.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a flat outline (b) a 3D form (c) a 2D shape
- 13.True or false: a circle is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 14.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the background. (a) True (b) False
- 15.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
- 16.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) hatching
- 17.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) sphere (b) oval (c) star (d) circle
- 18.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a flat 2D area (b) a solid 3D object (c) how a surface feels (d) a hue, like red or blue
- 19.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) blending (b) cross-hatching (c) hatching (d) stippling
- 20.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) vertical (c) diagonal
- 21.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 22.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) is partly hidden (b) shows less detail (c) looks paler and bluer (d) shows more detail
- 23.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) poster colour (d) pencil
- 24.🧊 Which 3D form is a traffic cone shaped like? (a) cube (b) cuboid (c) cylinder (d) cone
- 25.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) where light hits most (b) its shadow on the table (c) the darker half of it (d) the side away from light
- 26.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 2H (b) 2B (c) H (d) HB
- 27.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) colour (b) shape (c) space (d) glue
- 28.Which of these is called stippling? (a) many parallel lines (b) lines all one way (c) dots packed close (d) smudging with a finger
- 29.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter B stand for? (a) blue (b) big (c) brown (d) black
- 30.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “still and peaceful”? (a) vertical lines (b) horizontal lines (c) zigzag lines (d) curved lines
- 31.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a dice (b) a drinking straw (c) a traffic cone (d) a football
- 32.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) wavy line (c) straight line (d) spiral line
- 33.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) colour (b) value (c) form (d) shape
- 34.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) sphere (b) cone (c) cube (d) circle
- 35.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) shows more detail (b) looks smaller (c) overlaps other things (d) looks bigger
- 36.📐 Is a star a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 37.True or false: “a sense of near and far” is the element called shape. (a) True (b) False
- 38.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) looks bigger (c) is partly hidden (d) sits lower on the page
- 39.True or false: a falling tree is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
- 40.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
Answer key
- True
- True
- watercolour
- how light or dark it is
- True
- mixed with lots of water
- frame
- B
- False
- False
- star
- a 3D form
- False
- False
- background
- stippling
- sphere
- a hue, like red or blue
- cross-hatching
- vertical
- vertical
- shows more detail
- wax crayons
- cone
- its shadow on the table
- HB
- glue
- dots packed close
- black
- horizontal lines
- a football
- wavy line
- shape
- cube
- looks smaller
- a 2D shape
- False
- is partly hidden
- False
- shadow side
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