Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 218 · 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 light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) pink (c) light blue (d) light green
3. 3.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) dark red (d) lilac
7. 7.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
8. 8.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) pink
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) dark purple
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) pale yellow
12. 12.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) water to black (c) white to black (d) a little colour to white
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
14. 14.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) pink (d) pale yellow
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) maroon (d) pink
24. 24.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
27. 27.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
29. 29.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) lilac
31. 31.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) dark red
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) bottle green
35. 35.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
36. 36.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False

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