Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 165 · 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.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) pale yellow (c) light blue (d) light green
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) lilac
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) light green
6. 6.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) light blue (d) bottle green
8. 8.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) navy blue
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
14. 14.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) maroon
18. 18.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) light blue
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) lilac (c) pink (d) light blue
22. 22.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) dark green (d) navy blue
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) dark red (d) light blue
27. 27.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) light green
28. 28.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
29. 29.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) dark red
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
33. 33.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) light green (c) light blue (d) sky blue
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
36. 36.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
39. 39.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark green (c) navy blue (d) maroon
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black

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