Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 263 · 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 paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) light green (d) dark purple
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) dark red (d) lilac
4. 4.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
5. 5.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) dark purple
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) pink (d) light blue
13. 13.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
21. 21.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) pale yellow (d) maroon
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) dark purple
23. 23.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) maroon
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) light green (d) bottle green
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) light blue (d) lilac
29. 29.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
30. 30.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
35. 35.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.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
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False

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