Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 104 · 40 questions

Artist's tip (White up, black down): Tint = colour + white (lighter): pink, sky blue, light green, lilac, pale yellow. Shade = colour + black (darker): maroon, navy blue, dark green, bottle green, dark purple. Tone = colour + grey. Mixing a tint, start with white and add colour a little at a time; a row from white to black is a value scale.

1. 1.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) sky blue (c) lilac (d) light green
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) pink (c) lilac (d) light blue
3. 3.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
5. 5.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) pink (d) dark red
7. 7.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) light blue
13. 13.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) navy blue
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
20. 20.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pink (c) dark red (d) navy blue
23. 23.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
25. 25.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
27. 27.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) water to black (c) white to black (d) black to colour
30. 30.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) horizon line (c) palette (d) colour wheel
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) pink
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) navy blue
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
39. 39.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) light green

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