Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 241 · 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.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) sky blue
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue (c) lilac (d) pink
4. 4.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) dark red
11. 11.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) light green (d) maroon
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) light green
20. 20.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
24. 24.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) white to black (c) black to colour (d) a little colour to white
25. 25.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) light green (d) navy blue
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) maroon
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
28. 28.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
30. 30.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) sky blue
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) light blue
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) light blue (d) dark red
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) pale yellow (c) maroon (d) dark red
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark purple (c) bottle green (d) maroon
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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