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: “mixed with lots of water” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
- 2.✏️ Which shading method uses smooth, soft tones? (a) stippling (b) blending (c) cross-hatching (d) hatching
- 3.🧼 What do you wash a brush with after poster colour? (a) water and mild soap (b) hot oil (c) glue (d) sand
- 4.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) value (b) texture (c) line (d) shape
- 5.Which of these is called hatching? (a) smooth, soft tones (b) smudging with a finger (c) lines all one way (d) lines crossing over
- 6.⚽ How many flat faces does a sphere have?
- 7.💡 On a shaded ball, what is its shadow on the table called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 8.Which of these is called blending? (a) many parallel lines (b) smudging with a finger (c) lines all one way (d) dots packed close
- 9.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 10.True or false: an oval is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 11.Which of these is shaped like a sphere? (a) a marble (b) a dice (c) a candle (d) a sugar cube
- 12.True or false: rinsing between colours is bad for the brush. (a) False (b) True
- 13.True or false: “a moving dot’s path” is the element called colour. (a) False (b) True
- 14.True or false: pencil grade H makes hard, light marks. (a) False (b) True
- 15.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cube (b) cuboid (c) oval (d) cylinder
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) oval (c) triangle (d) square
- 17.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part nearest you? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 18.True or false: “from white to black” is the element called line. (a) True (b) False
- 19.True or false: pencil grade 4H makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 21.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 2B (b) 6B
- 22.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 23.✏️ Which shading method uses criss-cross lines? (a) cross-hatching (b) blending (c) hatching (d) stippling
- 24.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) space (b) shape (c) line (d) value
- 26.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) form (c) line (d) easel
- 27.📏 Draw a standing tree trunk with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 28.📏 Draw a person standing tall with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 29.Which of these is shaped like a cube? (a) a matchbox (b) an ice-cream cone (c) a sugar cube (d) a football
- 30.True or false: a triangle is a solid 3D form. (a) False (b) True
- 31.True or false: a triangle is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call things that look biggest? (a) middle ground (b) background (c) foreground
- 33.True or false: a hexagon is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) space (b) texture (c) line (d) value
- 35.True or false: an object that shows less detail seems far away. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) value (b) space (c) shape (d) form
- 37.True or false: we use an easel for holding a board upright. (a) False (b) True
- 38.Which of these is the element called form? (a) a closed flat outline (b) only length and width (c) can be seen all round (d) a long, thin mark
- 39.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) masking tape (b) palette (c) round brush (d) easel
- 40.Which of these is called stippling? (a) many parallel lines (b) lines crossing over (c) lines all one way (d) dots packed close
Answer key
- True
- blending
- water and mild soap
- value
- lines all one way
- 0
- cast shadow
- smudging with a finger
- light value
- True
- a marble
- False
- False
- True
- oval
- cube
- foreground
- False
- False
- 7
- 6B
- False
- cross-hatching
- False
- shape
- easel
- vertical
- vertical
- a sugar cube
- False
- True
- foreground
- True
- texture
- True
- space
- True
- can be seen all round
- palette
- dots packed close
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