Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 213 · 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: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) dark purple
3. 3.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) dark purple
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) light green
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) pink (c) light green (d) light blue
10. 10.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
11. 11.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) navy blue (d) light blue
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light green (c) light blue (d) sky blue
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) dark green
15. 15.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) navy blue
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) maroon (d) dark green
18. 18.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
21. 21.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) sky blue (c) bottle green (d) light blue
23. 23.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) maroon
25. 25.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
26. 26.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) sky blue
28. 28.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
32. 32.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) pink (d) navy blue
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) pink
39. 39.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade

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