Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 200 · 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 sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
2. 2.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
5. 5.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) light green
9. 9.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
10. 10.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
11. 11.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) dark purple
13. 13.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
14. 14.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) maroon (d) pink
17. 17.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
21. 21.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) lilac (c) pink (d) sky blue
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) light blue (d) lilac
23. 23.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) lilac
25. 25.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
26. 26.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) light blue
29. 29.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
31. 31.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) sky blue
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
38. 38.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) light blue
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True

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