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.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) zigzag line (b) spiral line (c) dotted or broken line (d) wavy line
- 2.Which of these is called stippling? (a) many parallel lines (b) lines all one way (c) smudging with a finger (d) dots packed close
- 3.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) the side away from light (b) the darker half of it (c) the dark shape it throws (d) where light hits most
- 4.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) washing with mild soap (b) reshaping the tip (c) rinsing between colours (d) letting paint dry on it
- 5.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) colour (b) shape (c) glue (d) space
- 6.🖌️ Is washing with mild soap good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 7.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) space (b) line (c) texture (d) value
- 8.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “tall and strong”? (a) vertical lines (b) curved lines (c) diagonal lines (d) zigzag lines
- 9.True or false: leaving it in water is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 10.⚽ How many flat faces does a sphere have?
- 11.⬜⬛ Does pale yellow have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 12.True or false: the teeth of a saw looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 13.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 14.Which of these is a feature of oil pastels? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) mixed with lots of water (c) light first outlines (d) do not smudge easily
- 15.True or false: “the area around objects” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 16.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter B stand for? (a) black (b) brown (c) blue (d) big
- 17.True or false: “bright, flat colour” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
- 18.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) shadow side (b) cast shadow (c) highlight
- 19.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part in between is the background. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks paler and bluer seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 21.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cuboid (b) rectangle (c) cylinder (d) sphere
- 23.🖌️ Is leaving it in water good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 24.True or false: in a landscape picture, the bottom of the page is the background. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🧱 Which element of art is “a flat 2D area”? (a) line (b) space (c) value (d) shape
- 26.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called cross-hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 27.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called line. (a) False (b) True
- 28.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a playground slide (b) a sleeping person (c) a standing tree trunk (d) a tall lamp post
- 29.💡 The light comes from the RIGHT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) on the right side (b) inside the object (c) on the left side (d) above the object
- 30.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) line (b) value (c) space (d) shape
- 31.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 32.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a dotted line (b) a zigzag (c) a straight line (d) a spiral
- 33.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a flag in the wind (b) a snail shell (c) a wriggling snake (d) a ruler’s edge
- 34.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
- 35.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the highlight. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 37.True or false: pencil grade 4B makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 39.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a ruler’s edge (b) a cut-here line (c) a snail shell (d) ocean waves
- 40.📐 Is a circle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
Answer key
- spiral line
- dots packed close
- where light hits most
- letting paint dry on it
- glue
- good brush care
- texture
- vertical lines
- True
- 0
- light value
- True
- horizontal
- soft, creamy sticks
- True
- black
- False
- shadow side
- False
- far away
- near the viewer
- rectangle
- bad for the brush
- False
- shape
- False
- True
- a playground slide
- on the left side
- space
- hard, light marks
- a spiral
- a ruler’s edge
- hatching
- False
- 7
- False
- foreground
- ocean waves
- a 2D shape
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