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.🖌️ Is rinsing between colours good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 2.What do we use a sharpener for? (a) giving a pencil a point (b) fine lines and details (c) holding a board upright (d) wide, straight strokes
- 3.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) its shadow on the table (b) where light hits most (c) the side away from light (d) the brightest spot
- 4.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) value (b) form (c) texture (d) shape
- 5.True or false: shading with lots of tiny dots is called stippling. (a) False (b) True
- 6.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) do not smudge easily (b) see-through colour (c) bright, flat colour (d) soft, creamy sticks
- 7.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a straight line (b) a wavy line (c) a zigzag line (d) a dotted line
- 8.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) the side away from light (b) where light hits most (c) the dark shape it throws (d) the brightest spot
- 9.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 10.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 11.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a shape (b) a form (c) a sculpture (d) a cube
- 12.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) poster colour (b) pencil (c) watercolour (d) oil pastels
- 13.True or false: a tall lamp post is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “calm and resting”? (a) horizontal lines (b) curved lines (c) diagonal lines (d) vertical lines
- 15.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a flat 2D area (b) how a surface feels (c) a hue, like red or blue (d) a sense of near and far
- 16.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 17.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) cone (b) square (c) circle (d) star
- 18.🧱 Which element of art is “a long, thin mark”? (a) line (b) value (c) colour (d) space
- 19.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4B (b) B (c) 4H (d) HB
- 20.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) shows more detail (c) looks paler and bluer (d) looks bigger
- 21.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) blending (b) stippling (c) hatching (d) cross-hatching
- 22.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) straight line (c) zigzag line (d) spiral line
- 23.📐 Is an oval a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 24.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “bright, flat colour”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) watercolour (d) poster colour
- 25.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) the side away from light (b) the brightest spot (c) the darker half of it (d) its shadow on the table
- 26.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a flat 2D area (b) rough, smooth or bumpy (c) what a rainbow shows (d) gaps between things
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shows less detail (b) looks smaller (c) sits near the horizon (d) looks bigger
- 28.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, creamy sticks”? (a) watercolour (b) oil pastels (c) wax crayons (d) pencil
- 29.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) younger (b) farther away (c) closer to you (d) taller
- 30.True or false: an object that shows less detail seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 31.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 32.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
- 33.🖌️ Is standing on its bristles good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 34.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part farthest away (b) the part nearest you (c) the top of the scene (d) the part in between
- 35.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of a pencil. (a) True (b) False
- 36.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 37.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “blend with a fingertip”? (a) oil pastels (b) pencil (c) wax crayons (d) watercolour
- 38.True or false: shading with criss-cross lines is called cross-hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 39.✏️ Which side of a ball facing a lamp is the lightest? (a) the side facing the lamp (b) the bottom (c) the side away from it
- 40.💡 The light comes from the RIGHT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) inside the object (b) above the object (c) on the left side (d) on the right side
Answer key
- good brush care
- giving a pencil a point
- the side away from light
- form
- True
- do not smudge easily
- a wavy line
- the dark shape it throws
- organic shape
- 7
- a shape
- watercolour
- True
- horizontal lines
- a sense of near and far
- False
- cone
- line
- 4H
- looks paler and bluer
- hatching
- dotted or broken line
- a 2D shape
- poster colour
- the brightest spot
- what a rainbow shows
- looks bigger
- oil pastels
- farther away
- True
- dark value
- 4
- bad for the brush
- the part nearest you
- True
- hard, light marks
- oil pastels
- True
- the side facing the lamp
- on the left side
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