Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 261 · 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) navy blue (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) pink
2. 2.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
4. 4.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
7. 7.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
9. 9.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) black to colour (c) water to black (d) a little colour to white
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) lilac (d) navy blue
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) pink (d) lilac
13. 13.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
16. 16.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
19. 19.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) maroon
21. 21.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
23. 23.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pink (c) dark red (d) sky blue
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) dark purple
32. 32.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) light green (d) pink
35. 35.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True

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