Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 266 · 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.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) maroon
4. 4.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) navy blue
5. 5.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) lilac (c) pink (d) pale yellow
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) maroon (c) pink (d) light green
8. 8.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
9. 9.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
12. 12.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
13. 13.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) dark green
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
23. 23.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) maroon
26. 26.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) black to colour (c) water to black (d) white to black
27. 27.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) navy blue (d) lilac
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) maroon
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
30. 30.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
31. 31.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) bottle green
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) light green
33. 33.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
37. 37.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) dark red
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) pink
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True

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