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: white has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 2.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) wavy line (b) zigzag line (c) spiral line (d) straight line
- 3.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 4.✏️ Which shading method uses dots packed close? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
- 5.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) hard, waxy sticks (b) bright, flat colour (c) light first outlines (d) see-through colour
- 6.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 7.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
- 8.True or false: a flag in the wind looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
- 9.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter H stand for? (a) high (b) hard (c) hot (d) heavy
- 10.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) texture (b) value (c) line (d) frame
- 11.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 12.Which of these is called hatching? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) dots packed close (c) lines all one way (d) lots of tiny dots
- 13.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4H (b) 2B (c) 6B (d) HB
- 14.🍃 Is a puddle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 15.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) space (b) colour (c) value (d) texture
- 16.True or false: “looks furry or scaly” is the element called form. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🟦 A square drawn with depth, showing three faces, looks like a… (a) cube (b) circle (c) sphere (d) cone
- 18.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) form (b) texture (c) shape (d) space
- 19.True or false: a sphere is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 20.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 21.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called line. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) colour (b) glue (c) space (d) shape
- 23.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 24.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a falling tree (b) a person standing tall (c) a leaning ladder (d) a table top
- 25.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a flat 2D area (b) the area around objects (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) rough, smooth or bumpy
- 26.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) star (b) cube (c) circle (d) square
- 28.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 29.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a straight line (b) a dotted line (c) a spiral (d) a zigzag
- 30.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 31.True or false: “do not smudge easily” is a feature of poster colour. (a) True (b) False
- 32.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 33.True or false: we use a sharpener for giving a pencil a point. (a) True (b) False
- 34.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) grey lines for sketching (b) bright, flat colour (c) see-through colour (d) hard, waxy sticks
- 35.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a flag in the wind (b) a tightly pulled rope (c) a row of pointy peaks (d) a jalebi
- 36.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a playground slide (b) a leaning ladder (c) a tall lamp post (d) a sleeping person
- 37.Which of these is shaped like a cylinder? (a) a party hat (b) a drinking straw (c) a traffic cone (d) a brick
- 38.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 39.📐 Is a sphere a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 40.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a cut-here line (b) a laser beam (c) a jalebi (d) a row of pointy peaks
Answer key
- False
- wavy line
- True
- stippling
- light first outlines
- near the viewer
- False
- False
- hard
- frame
- 12
- lines all one way
- 4H
- organic shape
- value
- False
- cube
- texture
- False
- 8
- True
- glue
- bad for the brush
- a table top
- a flat 2D area
- background
- cube
- 7
- a spiral
- vertical
- False
- medium marks
- True
- see-through colour
- a jalebi
- a sleeping person
- a drinking straw
- True
- a 3D form
- a laser beam
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