Tints and Shades Worksheet

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

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