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: shading with criss-cross lines is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) circle (c) square (d) rectangle
- 3.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 4.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) bright, flat colour (b) thick, opaque paint (c) hard, waxy sticks (d) light first outlines
- 5.True or false: a jalebi looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 6.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cuboid (b) circle (c) cylinder (d) sphere
- 7.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 8.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) looks bigger (b) looks smaller (c) shows more detail (d) sits lower on the page
- 9.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called line. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🖍️ Which paint is best for bright, solid colour on a school chart? (a) charcoal (b) pencil (c) watercolour (d) poster colour
- 11.True or false: washing with mild soap is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 12.True or false: a tightly pulled rope looks like a wavy line. (a) False (b) True
- 13.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a laser beam (b) a jalebi (c) stitches on cloth (d) a snail shell
- 14.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 15.Which of these is the element called form? (a) a flat 2D area (b) a long, thin mark (c) only length and width (d) a solid 3D object
- 16.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) texture (b) shape (c) colour (d) form
- 17.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) cube (b) square (c) cone (d) sphere
- 18.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “hard, waxy sticks”? (a) wax crayons (b) poster colour (c) oil pastels (d) watercolour
- 19.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) foreground (b) middle ground (c) background
- 20.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) shows more detail (b) sits near the horizon (c) overlaps other things (d) looks bigger
- 21.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the top of the scene? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
- 22.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a form (b) a cube (c) a sculpture (d) a shape
- 23.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) lines crossing over (b) lines all one way (c) dots packed close (d) smudging with a finger
- 24.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of poster colour. (a) True (b) False
- 25.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) how light or dark it is (c) a moving dot’s path (d) a long, thin mark
- 26.True or false: we use an easel for holding a board upright. (a) True (b) False
- 27.True or false: “hard, waxy sticks” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
- 28.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cuboid (b) cylinder (c) pyramid (d) triangle
- 29.True or false: “light first outlines” is a feature of poster colour. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: a playground slide is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 31.True or false: a sleeping person is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
- 33.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a tightly pulled rope (b) a wriggling snake (c) a flag in the wind (d) the teeth of a saw
- 34.True or false: a leaning ladder is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 36.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form (c) a flat outline
- 37.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) big to small (b) white to black (c) near to far (d) red to blue
- 38.🧊 Which 3D form is a water pipe shaped like? (a) cylinder (b) cuboid (c) cube (d) sphere
- 39.💡 The light comes from the RIGHT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) on the right side (b) above the object (c) inside the object (d) on the left side
- 40.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “do not smudge easily”? (a) pencil (b) wax crayons (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
Answer key
- True
- cube
- 7
- hard, waxy sticks
- True
- circle
- 8
- looks smaller
- False
- poster colour
- True
- False
- stitches on cloth
- bad for the brush
- a solid 3D object
- colour
- sphere
- wax crayons
- background
- sits near the horizon
- background
- a shape
- lines crossing over
- False
- rough, smooth or bumpy
- True
- False
- triangle
- False
- False
- False
- 4
- a tightly pulled rope
- False
- good brush care
- a 3D form
- white to black
- cylinder
- on the left side
- wax crayons
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