Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 925 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
2. 2.True or false: shading with criss-cross lines is called hatching. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) grey lines for sketching (c) light first outlines (d) mixed with lots of water
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) circle (b) rectangle (c) cone (d) star
5. 5.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
6. 6.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) glue (b) water and mild soap (c) sand (d) hot oil
7. 7.True or false: an object that overlaps other things seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) pencil (b) wax crayons (c) watercolour (d) poster colour
9. 9.⬜⬛ Does dark brown have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
10. 10.📐 Is a cube a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
11. 11.✏️ Which shading method uses smooth, soft tones? (a) cross-hatching (b) hatching (c) blending (d) stippling
12. 12.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called space. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧊 Which 3D form is a shoe box shaped like? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) cylinder (d) cube
14. 14.📏 What kind of line does ocean waves look like? (a) zigzag line (b) wavy line (c) dotted or broken line (d) spiral line
15. 15.True or false: we use a flat brush for wide, straight strokes. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: cream has a light value. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) reshaping the tip (c) letting paint dry on it (d) drying bristles up
19. 19.True or false: a cube is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) sphere (b) cube (c) star (d) cylinder
21. 21.🔭 In a picture, an object that is partly hidden seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
22. 22.🖌️ Is washing with mild soap good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
23. 23.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) texture (b) space (c) shape (d) colour
24. 24.What do we use a palette for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) rinsing brushes (c) fine lines and details (d) mixing colours
25. 25.Which of these is good brush care? (a) standing on its bristles (b) leaving it in water (c) reshaping the tip (d) scrubbing hard on paper
26. 26.Which of these is the element called form? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) a solid 3D object (c) rough, smooth or bumpy (d) what a rainbow shows
27. 27.True or false: a leaf is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🧊 Which 3D form is a matchbox shaped like? (a) cone (b) sphere (c) cylinder (d) cuboid
29. 29.💡 The light shines from straight above. Where is the cast shadow? (a) in the sky (b) on the ceiling (c) under the object (d) above the object
30. 30.📏 What kind of line does a lightning bolt look like? (a) wavy line (b) dotted or broken line (c) zigzag line (d) straight line
31. 31.Which of these is the element called value? (a) how light or dark it is (b) gaps between things (c) a moving dot’s path (d) a long, thin mark
32. 32.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “do not smudge easily”? (a) wax crayons (b) pencil (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
33. 33.Which of these is called hatching? (a) lots of tiny dots (b) criss-cross lines (c) smudging with a finger (d) many parallel lines
34. 34.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) shows more detail (c) sits near the horizon (d) looks bigger
35. 35.True or false: an object that looks smaller seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: “only length and width” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧊 Which 3D form is a marble shaped like? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) cube (d) sphere
38. 38.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a wriggling snake (b) a flag in the wind (c) a ruler’s edge (d) a row of pointy peaks
39. 39.True or false: “a sense of near and far” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is called stippling? (a) criss-cross lines (b) lots of tiny dots (c) lines crossing over (d) smudging with a finger

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