Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 250 · 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 of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) pink
3. 3.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) maroon
5. 5.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) lilac (d) dark purple
7. 7.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) lilac (d) light green
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
10. 10.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) light green
13. 13.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) navy blue (c) pink (d) maroon
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
17. 17.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) pink
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue (c) maroon (d) dark purple
20. 20.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) navy blue (d) light green
22. 22.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) dark red
26. 26.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale
27. 27.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) sky blue
28. 28.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) light green
33. 33.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
34. 34.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
35. 35.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
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) dark green
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
39. 39.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white

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