Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 164 · 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 lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
4. 4.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) navy blue (d) light green
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) lilac
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) dark red
11. 11.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
13. 13.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
14. 14.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) lilac
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) light green (d) dark red
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) dark green
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) sky blue (c) bottle green (d) maroon
24. 24.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) lilac (d) dark green
25. 25.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
34. 34.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) a little colour to white (c) water to black (d) black to colour
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) dark green
39. 39.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False

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