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.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 2.📏 What kind of line does stitches on cloth look like? (a) zigzag line (b) spiral line (c) dotted or broken line (d) wavy line
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) washing with mild soap (c) letting paint dry on it (d) standing on its bristles
- 4.True or false: black has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
- 5.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 6.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 7.True or false: a rectangle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: a playground slide is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
- 9.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 6B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 10.True or false: shading with criss-cross lines is called stippling. (a) False (b) True
- 11.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) hatching (b) blending (c) cross-hatching (d) stippling
- 12.🍦 How many flat faces does a cone have?
- 13.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) shape (b) space (c) form (d) colour
- 14.💡 The light comes from the LEFT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) above the object (b) inside the object (c) on the left side (d) on the right side
- 15.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a wavy line. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding paper flat? (a) sponge (b) palette (c) sharpener (d) masking tape
- 17.🍃 Is a hexagon a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 18.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) space (b) form (c) value (d) line
- 19.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) the darker half of it (b) the side away from light (c) its shadow on the table (d) where light hits most
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) oval (b) sphere (c) cone (d) cube
- 21.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 22.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) water pot (b) round brush (c) palette (d) easel
- 23.✏️ Which shading method uses smudging with a finger? (a) stippling (b) blending (c) cross-hatching (d) hatching
- 24.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) watercolour (b) wax crayons (c) oil pastels (d) poster colour
- 25.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) mixed with lots of water (b) soft, creamy sticks (c) grey lines for sketching (d) thick, opaque paint
- 26.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) 2B (c) H (d) B
- 27.📏 A slanting line, like a slide, is… (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 28.🧰 Which art tool do we use for holding a board upright? (a) water pot (b) sponge (c) easel (d) flat brush
- 29.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the middle ground. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🖌️ Is reshaping the tip good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 31.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) its shadow on the table (b) where light hits most (c) the darker half of it (d) the brightest spot
- 32.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) shape (b) line (c) value (d) texture
- 33.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part in between? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
- 34.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 35.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a closed flat outline (b) has height, width, depth (c) a moving dot’s path (d) looks furry or scaly
- 36.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) triangle (b) sphere (c) square (d) oval
- 37.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, creamy sticks”? (a) oil pastels (b) poster colour (c) watercolour (d) wax crayons
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) reshaping the tip (c) letting paint dry on it (d) washing with mild soap
- 39.True or false: “a solid 3D object” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
- 40.True or false: dashes on a road looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- highlight
- dotted or broken line
- washing with mild soap
- True
- True
- horizontal
- False
- True
- soft, dark marks
- False
- hatching
- 1
- colour
- on the right side
- False
- masking tape
- geometric shape
- space
- its shadow on the table
- oval
- vertical
- palette
- blending
- watercolour
- thick, opaque paint
- H
- diagonal
- easel
- False
- good brush care
- the darker half of it
- value
- middle ground
- 7
- a moving dot’s path
- sphere
- oil pastels
- letting paint dry on it
- False
- False
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