Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 191 · 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.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
2. 2.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) water to black
5. 5.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) light blue (c) dark green (d) navy blue
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) sky blue
12. 12.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
13. 13.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) dark red (d) bottle green
15. 15.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) maroon
17. 17.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) pink (d) bottle green
20. 20.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
22. 22.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) pink (d) maroon
25. 25.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) lilac (c) light green (d) light blue
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) pink (d) lilac
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
31. 31.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) pink (d) pale yellow
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) bottle green
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) light blue
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) sky blue

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