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 laser beam looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
- 2.True or false: dark grey has a light value. (a) False (b) True
- 3.True or false: washing with mild soap is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 4.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) the area around objects (b) only length and width (c) rough, smooth or bumpy (d) a moving dot’s path
- 5.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) sphere (b) star (c) rectangle (d) circle
- 6.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) form (b) value (c) easel (d) line
- 7.What do we use a water pot for? (a) rinsing brushes (b) mixing colours (c) giving a pencil a point (d) fine lines and details
- 8.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) shadow side (b) highlight (c) cast shadow
- 9.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) see-through colour (b) soft, creamy sticks (c) hard, waxy sticks (d) light first outlines
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks smaller (b) shows more detail (c) overlaps other things (d) sits lower on the page
- 11.🍃 Is a hexagon a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 12.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 13.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 14.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 15.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) ocean waves (c) a wriggling snake (d) a coiled rope
- 16.True or false: a falling tree is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 17.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 18.Which of these is called hatching? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) lines all one way (c) smudging with a finger (d) dots packed close
- 19.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) ocean waves (c) stitches on cloth (d) a tightly pulled rope
- 20.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the top of the scene? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
- 21.True or false: an object that overlaps other things seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 22.True or false: the edge of a calm sea is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 23.True or false: a cube is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) line (b) texture (c) form (d) shape
- 25.True or false: an object that shows more detail seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 26.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a row of pointy peaks (b) a snail shell (c) a wriggling snake (d) ocean waves
- 27.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 28.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 29.True or false: a circle is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: an object that shows more detail seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 31.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a shape (b) a form (c) a cube (d) a sculpture
- 32.True or false: a wriggling snake looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 33.True or false: a triangle is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 34.True or false: “a hue, like red or blue” is the element called form. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: an object that shows less detail seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 36.True or false: a rectangle is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the middle ground. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 39.Which of these is shaped like a cylinder? (a) a marble (b) a candle (c) a traffic cone (d) a party hat
- 40.📏 What kind of line does stitches on cloth look like? (a) spiral line (b) dotted or broken line (c) wavy line (d) zigzag line
Answer key
- True
- False
- False
- only length and width
- sphere
- easel
- rinsing brushes
- cast shadow
- light first outlines
- looks smaller
- geometric shape
- False
- bad for the brush
- bad for the brush
- a coiled rope
- False
- True
- lines all one way
- a row of pointy peaks
- background
- False
- True
- True
- shape
- True
- a snail shell
- hard, light marks
- True
- True
- False
- a shape
- False
- True
- False
- False
- False
- False
- 9
- a candle
- dotted or broken line
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