Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 155 · 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) pink (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) pale yellow
2. 2.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) light green (d) pale yellow
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) navy blue (d) lilac
7. 7.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) sky blue (d) dark green
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) light green
13. 13.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
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
16. 16.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) pink
18. 18.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) light green
20. 20.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
23. 23.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
24. 24.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) light blue
27. 27.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) dark green
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
31. 31.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) palette (c) value scale (d) colour wheel
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) lilac (c) pink (d) light green
34. 34.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) bottle green (d) light green
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) light green
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) dark green
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True

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