Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 162 · 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 maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) pink
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.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
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) maroon (d) light blue
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
12. 12.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
13. 13.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
16. 16.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) light green (d) maroon
18. 18.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
22. 22.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) sky blue (d) light blue
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
25. 25.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) pink
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
30. 30.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) pink (d) light green
32. 32.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
33. 33.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) dark red
35. 35.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
36. 36.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) maroon
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) maroon

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