Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 233 · 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) pink (b) maroon
2. 2.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) navy blue
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) pale yellow (d) sky blue
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow
10. 10.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
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) lilac
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) dark red
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
21. 21.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) bottle green
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) sky blue (d) lilac
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
27. 27.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
28. 28.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) light blue
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) dark green
30. 30.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) bottle green
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) dark green
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
37. 37.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
39. 39.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black

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