Tints and Shades Worksheet

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

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