Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 237 · 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.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
2. 2.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) maroon (d) lilac
6. 6.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
7. 7.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) a little colour to white (c) white to black (d) water to black
8. 8.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) value scale (c) horizon line (d) palette
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) dark green
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) light blue
11. 11.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) pink
13. 13.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
15. 15.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
18. 18.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) pink (d) maroon
22. 22.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
23. 23.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
27. 27.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
33. 33.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) pale yellow
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) light green (d) lilac
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) dark green

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