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 kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 2.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) watercolour (b) pencil (c) oil pastels (d) poster colour
- 4.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 5.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) straight line (b) zigzag line (c) wavy line (d) dotted or broken line
- 6.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a sponge (b) a small round brush (c) a wide flat brush (d) a big roller
- 7.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) B (b) 4B (c) 2B (d) H
- 8.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) shows less detail (b) looks bigger (c) is partly hidden (d) looks paler and bluer
- 9.True or false: a hexagon is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) standing on its bristles (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) rinsing between colours (d) leaving it in water
- 11.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) bristles up or flat (b) bristles down (c) with paint on it (d) in the water pot
- 12.⬜⬛ Does pale yellow have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 13.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a sleeping person (c) a falling tree (d) a playground slide
- 14.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, creamy sticks”? (a) oil pastels (b) poster colour (c) pencil (d) wax crayons
- 15.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) soft, creamy sticks (c) do not smudge easily (d) light first outlines
- 16.True or false: a jalebi looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 17.True or false: pencil grade B makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) feet (b) eyes (c) knees (d) elbows
- 19.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 20.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) value (b) shape (c) line (d) texture
- 21.Which of these is the element called space? (a) looks furry or scaly (b) a hue, like red or blue (c) a sense of near and far (d) how light or dark it is
- 22.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 23.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks bigger seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 24.📐 Is an oval a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 25.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) line (b) form (c) colour (d) space
- 26.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) value (b) space (c) shape (d) line
- 27.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) bright, flat colour (b) light first outlines (c) see-through colour (d) hard, waxy sticks
- 28.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 29.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, light washes”? (a) oil pastels (b) wax crayons (c) watercolour (d) poster colour
- 30.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) the side away from light (b) the brightest spot (c) its shadow on the table (d) where light hits most
- 31.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) frame (d) texture
- 32.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) far hills and the sky (b) the part in between (c) things that look biggest (d) the bottom of the page
- 33.🧊 How many flat faces does a cube have?
- 34.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the background. (a) False (b) True
- 35.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a spiral (b) a straight line (c) a zigzag (d) a dotted line
- 36.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) dashes on a road (b) a coiled rope (c) a wriggling snake (d) a laser beam
- 37.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) foreground (c) border (d) vanishing point
- 38.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 39.True or false: an object that looks bigger seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 40.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
Answer key
- soft, dark marks
- False
- poster colour
- diagonal
- wavy line
- a small round brush
- H
- looks bigger
- True
- rinsing between colours
- bristles up or flat
- light value
- a sleeping person
- oil pastels
- light first outlines
- False
- True
- eyes
- 7
- value
- a sense of near and far
- foreground
- near the viewer
- a 2D shape
- line
- space
- hard, waxy sticks
- 9
- watercolour
- its shadow on the table
- frame
- the part in between
- 6
- False
- a spiral
- a coiled rope
- vanishing point
- 12
- True
- vertical
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