Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 190 · 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 of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) bottle green (d) lilac
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
8. 8.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pale yellow (c) navy blue (d) dark purple
10. 10.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
11. 11.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
13. 13.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) light green (c) pink (d) maroon
15. 15.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) bottle green (c) maroon (d) dark red
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
22. 22.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) navy blue (d) maroon
26. 26.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) dark purple
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
29. 29.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) dark green
34. 34.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) navy blue
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) pink
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
39. 39.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) pink (d) sky blue
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False

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