Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 223 · 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 paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
3. 3.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
4. 4.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) maroon
12. 12.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) light green
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) light blue
18. 18.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) navy blue (d) pink
24. 24.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) light green (d) pink
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) light green (d) dark green
26. 26.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
28. 28.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) pink
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) light green
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) dark red
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
39. 39.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) white to black (c) water to black (d) a little colour to white
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) pale yellow (d) dark green

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