Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 16: Part 2 drawing and painting test · Set 940 · 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.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a candle (b) a brick (c) a globe (d) a party hat
2. 2.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
3. 3.📐 Is a sphere a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
4. 4.True or false: shading with criss-cross lines is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: “only length and width” is the element called colour. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) square (c) rectangle (d) star
7. 7.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows less detail seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
8. 8.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
9. 9.Which of these is called hatching? (a) criss-cross lines (b) many parallel lines (c) lines crossing over (d) lots of tiny dots
10. 10.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a football (b) a water pipe (c) a dice (d) a brick
11. 11.True or false: in a landscape picture, the top of the scene is the background. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) farther away (b) closer to you (c) younger (d) taller
13. 13.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) B (b) H (c) 2B (d) 4B
14. 14.🧱 Which element of art is “what a rainbow shows”? (a) texture (b) colour (c) shape (d) space
15. 15.True or false: a cuboid is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a sleeping person (b) a table top (c) a person standing tall (d) a falling tree
17. 17.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a long, thin mark (b) a closed flat outline (c) how light or dark it is (d) a sense of near and far
18. 18.Which of these is the element called space? (a) how light or dark it is (b) gaps between things (c) only length and width (d) from white to black
19. 19.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
20. 20.📐 Is a cube a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
21. 21.True or false: a playground slide is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🖌️ Which brush is best for painting a wide, even sky? (a) a toothpick (b) a wide flat brush (c) a pencil (d) a small round brush
23. 23.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a straight line (b) a zigzag (c) a dotted line (d) a spiral
24. 24.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
25. 25.True or false: we use a sharpener for wide, straight strokes. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the bottom of the page (b) the top of the scene (c) the part nearest you (d) things that look biggest
27. 27.🍦 How many flat faces does a cone have?
28. 28.⬜⬛ Does black have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
29. 29.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) square (b) circle (c) cylinder (d) rectangle
30. 30.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) zigzag line (b) straight line (c) spiral line (d) wavy line
31. 31.True or false: a falling tree is a diagonal line. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) drying bristles up (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) rinsing between colours (d) reshaping the tip
33. 33.True or false: “rough, smooth or bumpy” is the element called value. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 2H (b) HB (c) 4H (d) 4B
35. 35.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) form (b) line (c) value (d) easel
36. 36.True or false: standing on its bristles is good brush care. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.Which of these is the element called form? (a) the area around objects (b) a solid 3D object (c) a moving dot’s path (d) a sense of near and far
38. 38.What do we use masking tape for? (a) holding a board upright (b) holding paper flat (c) rinsing brushes (d) giving a pencil a point
39. 39.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False

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