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.True or false: navy blue has a dark value. (a) True (b) False
- 2.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) rinsing between colours (b) washing with mild soap (c) standing on its bristles (d) reshaping the tip
- 3.True or false: we use a round brush for holding a board upright. (a) False (b) True
- 4.True or false: “a sense of near and far” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 5.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 6.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a leaning ladder (c) a falling tree (d) a table top
- 7.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: a person standing tall is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) line (b) colour (c) space (d) shape
- 10.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 11.True or false: an object that looks smaller seems near the viewer. (a) False (b) True
- 12.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a snail shell (b) ocean waves (c) a laser beam (d) a lightning bolt
- 13.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 14.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 15.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a leaning ladder (b) a falling tree (c) the edge of a calm sea (d) a standing tree trunk
- 16.🖼️ In the rule of thirds, where should the main subject go? (a) at the very edge (b) off the page (c) where the lines cross (d) in a corner
- 17.🧱 Which element of art is “what a rainbow shows”? (a) shape (b) value (c) colour (d) line
- 18.🧊 How many edges does a cube have?
- 19.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 20.🧊 How many flat faces does a cube have?
- 21.True or false: a row of pointy peaks looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 22.True or false: in a landscape picture, the top of the scene is the middle ground. (a) False (b) True
- 23.📏 What kind of line does a laser beam look like? (a) spiral line (b) straight line (c) zigzag line (d) dotted or broken line
- 24.True or false: washing with mild soap is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 25.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 26.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) closer to you (b) taller (c) farther away (d) younger
- 27.✏️ Which shading method uses smudging with a finger? (a) blending (b) stippling (c) hatching (d) cross-hatching
- 28.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) form (b) shape (c) space (d) colour
- 29.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) its shadow on the table (b) the side away from light (c) the brightest spot (d) the dark shape it throws
- 30.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) cross-hatching (b) stippling (c) hatching (d) blending
- 31.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) grey lines for sketching (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) light first outlines (d) mixed with lots of water
- 32.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the top of the scene? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
- 33.True or false: leaving it in water is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) texture (d) space
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) is partly hidden (b) looks bigger (c) shows more detail (d) overlaps other things
- 36.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a falling tree (b) a leaning ladder (c) a person standing tall (d) a playground slide
- 37.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a closed flat outline (b) what a rainbow shows (c) the area around objects (d) a moving dot’s path
- 38.📏 What kind of line does a flag in the wind look like? (a) zigzag line (b) wavy line (c) spiral line (d) dotted or broken line
- 39.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the dark shape it throws called? (a) shadow side (b) cast shadow (c) highlight
- 40.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) highlight (b) cast shadow (c) shadow side
Answer key
- True
- standing on its bristles
- False
- True
- dark value
- a tall lamp post
- False
- True
- line
- diagonal
- False
- ocean waves
- soft, dark marks
- vertical
- a standing tree trunk
- where the lines cross
- colour
- 12
- vertical
- 6
- True
- False
- straight line
- False
- soft, dark marks
- farther away
- blending
- space
- the brightest spot
- stippling
- mixed with lots of water
- background
- True
- texture
- is partly hidden
- a person standing tall
- the area around objects
- wavy line
- cast shadow
- highlight
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