Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 110 · 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.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
2. 2.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) bottle green
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) light green
7. 7.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) lilac
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) dark red (d) dark purple
9. 9.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) maroon
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) a little colour to white (c) white to black (d) black to colour
13. 13.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) light blue
15. 15.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
19. 19.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
21. 21.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) light green
26. 26.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) pink
28. 28.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) pink
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) light green (d) light blue
30. 30.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
35. 35.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
36. 36.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
37. 37.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
38. 38.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white

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