Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 184 · 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 paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.🎨 Is navy blue 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.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) dark red
10. 10.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
13. 13.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
19. 19.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) white to black (c) water to black (d) black to colour
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) light blue
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) sky blue
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) dark red
26. 26.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
30. 30.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) pale yellow
32. 32.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
33. 33.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) light blue
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) pink
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) pink (d) lilac
39. 39.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) light green (d) dark red
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black

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