Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 119 · 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 white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) light green (c) dark red (d) maroon
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) navy blue
9. 9.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) light green (d) lilac
12. 12.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) white to black
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) light green (d) lilac
14. 14.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) sky blue
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) sky blue
18. 18.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) lilac
21. 21.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) value scale (d) palette
24. 24.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
25. 25.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pale yellow (c) maroon (d) navy blue
28. 28.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light green (c) lilac (d) dark red
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) pink (d) dark green
33. 33.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) bottle green
38. 38.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) dark red (d) dark purple
40. 40.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone

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