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.📐 Is a cuboid a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 2.True or false: scrubbing hard on paper is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 3.True or false: “what a rainbow shows” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
- 4.True or false: “a closed flat outline” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
- 5.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a solid 3D object (b) has height, width, depth (c) how light or dark it is (d) a sense of near and far
- 6.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) border (b) highlight (c) foreground (d) vanishing point
- 7.True or false: a triangle is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: we use masking tape for mixing colours. (a) False (b) True
- 9.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) spiral line (b) dotted or broken line (c) wavy line (d) straight line
- 10.🥫 How many flat faces does a cylinder have?
- 11.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) shape (b) line (c) colour (d) space
- 12.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 13.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) texture (b) shape (c) value (d) line
- 14.True or false: “a flat 2D area” is the element called shape. (a) True (b) False
- 15.True or false: rinsing between colours is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
- 16.True or false: a flag in the wind looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🖌️ How should you store a clean, dry brush? (a) bristles down (b) with paint on it (c) bristles up or flat (d) in the water pot
- 18.True or false: a pyramid is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 19.True or false: “has height, width, depth” is the element called form. (a) False (b) True
- 20.True or false: “only length and width” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
- 21.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 22.🧊 Which 3D form is a brick shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) sphere (c) cone (d) cube
- 23.🍃 Is a triangle a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 24.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) line (b) colour (c) value (d) shape
- 25.🧊 Which 3D form is a shoe box shaped like? (a) sphere (b) cuboid (c) cylinder (d) cube
- 26.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
- 27.🧱 Which element of art is “can be seen all round”? (a) form (b) line (c) texture (d) space
- 28.🧰 Which art tool do we use for rinsing brushes? (a) flat brush (b) round brush (c) palette (d) water pot
- 29.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “grey lines for sketching”? (a) poster colour (b) oil pastels (c) watercolour (d) pencil
- 30.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a leaning ladder (b) a sleeping person (c) a person standing tall (d) a playground slide
- 31.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) form (b) value (c) shape (d) line
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) circle (b) pyramid (c) cone (d) cylinder
- 34.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called space. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: a snail shell looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 36.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) gaps between things (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) a solid 3D object (d) can be seen all round
- 37.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a jalebi (b) a laser beam (c) a tightly pulled rope (d) dashes on a road
- 38.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) stitches on cloth (b) a lightning bolt (c) a coiled rope (d) a snail shell
- 39.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 40.True or false: leaving it in water is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- a 3D form
- False
- True
- True
- a sense of near and far
- vanishing point
- True
- False
- spiral line
- 2
- space
- diagonal
- value
- True
- True
- True
- bristles up or flat
- False
- True
- True
- True
- cuboid
- geometric shape
- shape
- cuboid
- shadow side
- form
- water pot
- pencil
- a sleeping person
- True
- shape
- circle
- True
- False
- rough, smooth or bumpy
- a jalebi
- a lightning bolt
- bad for the brush
- False
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