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: on a shaded ball, its shadow on the table is called the cast shadow. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 3.Which of these is good brush care? (a) standing on its bristles (b) leaving it in water (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) drying bristles up
- 4.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) bright, flat colour (b) light first outlines (c) do not smudge easily (d) mixed with lots of water
- 5.⬜⬛ Does cream have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 6.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called stippling. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) line (b) form (c) texture (d) space
- 8.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a table top (b) a leaning ladder (c) the edge of a calm sea (d) a sleeping person
- 9.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a flag in the wind (b) a lightning bolt (c) a coiled rope (d) dashes on a road
- 10.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) square (b) cone (c) cube (d) sphere
- 11.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks bigger seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 12.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the shadow side. (a) True (b) False
- 13.Which of these is called hatching? (a) smudging with a finger (b) dots packed close (c) many parallel lines (d) lines crossing over
- 14.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) a globe (b) a matchbox (c) a sugar cube (d) an ice-cream cone
- 15.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) how a surface feels (b) only length and width (c) has height, width, depth (d) a flat 2D area
- 16.True or false: ocean waves looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: we use a water pot for holding paper flat. (a) False (b) True
- 18.True or false: pencil grade HB makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 19.Which of these is called stippling? (a) criss-cross lines (b) lines all one way (c) smudging with a finger (d) lots of tiny dots
- 20.True or false: standing on its bristles is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 21.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a person standing tall (b) the edge of a calm sea (c) a leaning ladder (d) a standing tree trunk
- 22.📐 Is a sphere a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 23.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) a flat 2D area (b) how light or dark it is (c) a sense of near and far (d) looks furry or scaly
- 24.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) lots of tiny dots (b) lines crossing over (c) dots packed close (d) lines all one way
- 25.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) value (b) space (c) line (d) form
- 27.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) space (b) shape (c) colour (d) form
- 28.📐 Is a cylinder a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 29.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
- 30.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) what a rainbow shows (b) a flat 2D area (c) looks furry or scaly (d) a solid 3D object
- 31.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 32.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 33.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) form (b) texture (c) colour (d) shape
- 34.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part farthest away (b) things that look biggest (c) the bottom of the page (d) the part nearest you
- 35.Which of these is the element called form? (a) looks furry or scaly (b) a flat 2D area (c) a solid 3D object (d) a closed flat outline
- 36.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a dotted line (b) a straight line (c) a spiral (d) a zigzag
- 37.Which of these is the element called form? (a) a sense of near and far (b) a moving dot’s path (c) how light or dark it is (d) has height, width, depth
- 38.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) has height, width, depth (b) only length and width (c) can be seen all round (d) gaps between things
- 39.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 40.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) B (b) 4B (c) 2B (d) 2H
Answer key
- True
- 7
- drying bristles up
- light first outlines
- light value
- True
- line
- a leaning ladder
- a coiled rope
- sphere
- near the viewer
- True
- many parallel lines
- an ice-cream cone
- how a surface feels
- False
- False
- True
- lots of tiny dots
- False
- the edge of a calm sea
- a 3D form
- looks furry or scaly
- lines crossing over
- False
- space
- form
- a 3D form
- True
- a flat 2D area
- shadow side
- hard, light marks
- texture
- the part farthest away
- a solid 3D object
- a spiral
- has height, width, depth
- only length and width
- 9
- 2H
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