Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 256 · 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 the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) light blue
2. 2.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) dark red (d) sky blue
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light green (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) maroon
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) lilac (d) light green
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) pink (d) pale yellow
12. 12.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) light blue
18. 18.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
21. 21.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) dark green
23. 23.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) lilac (d) light blue
28. 28.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) white to black (c) water to black (d) black to colour
30. 30.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
35. 35.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
36. 36.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) dark purple
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
39. 39.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True

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