Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 183 · 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) dark purple (b) lilac
2. 2.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
4. 4.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) light green (d) navy blue
6. 6.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) lilac (d) dark green
10. 10.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
11. 11.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) dark green
13. 13.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) dark purple
16. 16.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) light blue
18. 18.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
21. 21.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) maroon
23. 23.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) light green (d) navy blue
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
27. 27.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) dark purple
32. 32.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) pink
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
38. 38.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
39. 39.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white

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