Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 181 · 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 is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
2. 2.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
5. 5.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
7. 7.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) dark red
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) bottle green (d) lilac
9. 9.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) lilac (d) maroon
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) bottle green
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark purple (c) bottle green (d) dark green
14. 14.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) pink
17. 17.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) navy blue
19. 19.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) dark purple
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) navy blue (d) light blue
25. 25.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) white to black (c) a little colour to white (d) black to colour
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) navy blue (d) light blue
27. 27.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) maroon (d) dark purple
29. 29.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) value scale (c) horizon line (d) colour wheel
30. 30.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark purple
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) light green
35. 35.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white

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