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 element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) value (b) line (c) space (d) shape
- 2.Which of these is good brush care? (a) standing on its bristles (b) leaving it in water (c) drying bristles up (d) letting paint dry on it
- 3.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of a pencil. (a) True (b) False
- 4.True or false: a table top is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 5.True or false: pencil grade H makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
- 6.True or false: pencil grade 4B makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits near the horizon seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 8.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 9.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) masking tape (b) palette (c) sharpener (d) sponge
- 10.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of a pencil. (a) True (b) False
- 11.In a landscape picture, which of these is the middle ground? (a) the bottom of the page (b) the part nearest you (c) the part in between (d) far hills and the sky
- 12.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) sphere (b) star (c) cuboid (d) cone
- 13.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 14.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) looks furry or scaly (c) a moving dot’s path (d) only length and width
- 15.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) far hills and the sky (b) the bottom of the page (c) things that look biggest (d) the part nearest you
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reshaping the tip (b) drying bristles up (c) washing with mild soap (d) standing on its bristles
- 17.True or false: dark brown has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
- 19.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) texture (b) shape (c) value (d) line
- 20.True or false: on a shaded ball, the dark shape it throws is called the highlight. (a) True (b) False
- 21.📐 Is a rectangle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 22.Which of these is the element called form? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) a long, thin mark (c) can be seen all round (d) a hue, like red or blue
- 23.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 24.True or false: a leaning ladder is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 26.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 27.Which of these is the element called form? (a) a flat 2D area (b) has height, width, depth (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) a moving dot’s path
- 28.True or false: an object that is partly hidden seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 29.True or false: shading with lines crossing over is called hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 30.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the top of the scene? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 31.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) dashes on a road (b) the teeth of a saw (c) a row of pointy peaks (d) a flag in the wind
- 32.📏 Draw a falling tree with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 33.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) colour (b) form (c) line (d) shape
- 34.Which of these is called blending? (a) lines all one way (b) smudging with a finger (c) criss-cross lines (d) lots of tiny dots
- 35.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 36.True or false: a sleeping person is a horizontal line. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: black has a light value. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a flat outline (b) a 3D form (c) a 2D shape
- 39.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 40.True or false: a table top is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- shape
- drying bristles up
- True
- False
- False
- True
- far away
- foreground
- palette
- True
- the part in between
- star
- bad for the brush
- a moving dot’s path
- far hills and the sky
- standing on its bristles
- False
- 4
- value
- False
- a 2D shape
- can be seen all round
- False
- True
- near the viewer
- 7
- has height, width, depth
- False
- False
- background
- a flag in the wind
- diagonal
- colour
- smudging with a finger
- near the viewer
- True
- False
- a 3D form
- soft, dark marks
- False
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