Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 268 · 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.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) pale yellow
4. 4.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
7. 7.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) dark green (d) sky blue
11. 11.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) dark purple
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) pink (c) dark red (d) navy blue
15. 15.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) dark green (d) sky blue
19. 19.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) navy blue
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) pink (c) light green (d) light blue
23. 23.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
27. 27.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) white to black (c) water to black (d) a little colour to white
32. 32.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
34. 34.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) dark purple
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white

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