Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 125 · 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.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
4. 4.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
5. 5.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) navy blue
6. 6.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) dark red
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) pink (d) dark red
11. 11.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) value scale (c) horizon line (d) palette
13. 13.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
14. 14.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
15. 15.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) dark red
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) light green (d) dark green
18. 18.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) pink
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) maroon
21. 21.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
25. 25.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) black to colour (c) water to black (d) a little colour to white
27. 27.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) pink
31. 31.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) light blue (d) lilac
35. 35.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white

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