Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 117 · 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: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) dark red
3. 3.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) dark purple
7. 7.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) palette (d) value scale
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark red (c) pink (d) lilac
11. 11.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) light green (d) dark purple
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) pink
15. 15.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) dark green (d) pink
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) light blue (d) navy blue
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
21. 21.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
25. 25.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
26. 26.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pale yellow (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
33. 33.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) light blue
35. 35.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) black to colour (c) a little colour to white (d) water to black
36. 36.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) maroon
38. 38.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) lilac
40. 40.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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