Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 170 · 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: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) light green (d) pale yellow
5. 5.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) dark purple (d) maroon
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) black to colour (c) white to black (d) a little colour to white
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
14. 14.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) dark red
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
19. 19.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
21. 21.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) sky blue
26. 26.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) pink
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) horizon line (c) value scale (d) colour wheel
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) bottle green (d) maroon
34. 34.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
35. 35.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue (c) pink (d) light blue
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black

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