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.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) texture (b) line (c) space (d) form
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) drying bristles up (b) rinsing between colours (c) leaving it in water (d) reshaping the tip
- 3.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 4.True or false: shading with smudging with a finger is called blending. (a) True (b) False
- 5.True or false: a standing tree trunk is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 6.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 7.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) cross-hatching (d) stippling
- 8.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a party hat (b) a football (c) a matchbox (d) a sugar cube
- 9.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) shape (b) texture (c) line (d) space
- 10.🧰 Which art tool do we use for rinsing brushes? (a) water pot (b) sponge (c) round brush (d) masking tape
- 11.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the side away from light called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
- 12.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 13.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a jalebi (b) a row of pointy peaks (c) the teeth of a saw (d) a laser beam
- 14.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a globe (b) an ice-cream cone (c) a water pipe (d) a traffic cone
- 15.True or false: leaving it in water is good brush care. (a) False (b) True
- 16.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 17.🧊 Which 3D form is a shoe box shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) cylinder (c) cone (d) cube
- 18.True or false: we use a water pot for rinsing brushes. (a) False (b) True
- 19.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part farthest away (b) things that look biggest (c) far hills and the sky (d) the part in between
- 20.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) light first outlines (b) see-through colour (c) thick, opaque paint (d) soft, light washes
- 21.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) soft, light washes (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) grey lines for sketching (d) soft, creamy sticks
- 22.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) shadow side (b) cast shadow (c) highlight
- 23.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a zigzag line (b) a wavy line (c) a dotted line (d) a straight line
- 24.🧱 Which element of art is “rough, smooth or bumpy”? (a) texture (b) colour (c) space (d) shape
- 25.True or false: we use a flat brush for wide, straight strokes. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🔭 In a picture, an object that overlaps other things seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 27.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 28.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 2H (b) HB (c) 4B (d) H
- 29.True or false: “thick, opaque paint” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
- 30.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) light first outlines (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) bright, flat colour (d) soft, light washes
- 31.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) water and mild soap (b) sand (c) hot oil (d) glue
- 32.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) vanishing point (c) foreground (d) border
- 33.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 34.🍦 How many flat faces does a cone have?
- 35.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 36.True or false: “hard, waxy sticks” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) texture (b) frame (c) value (d) line
- 38.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called colour. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) shape (b) value (c) line (d) texture
- 40.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
Answer key
- line
- leaving it in water
- True
- True
- True
- True
- stippling
- a sugar cube
- space
- water pot
- shadow side
- False
- a jalebi
- a globe
- False
- False
- cuboid
- True
- things that look biggest
- thick, opaque paint
- soft, creamy sticks
- shadow side
- a wavy line
- texture
- True
- near the viewer
- 7
- 4B
- False
- soft, light washes
- water and mild soap
- vanishing point
- medium marks
- 1
- 12
- True
- frame
- False
- shape
- organic shape
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