Tints and Shades Worksheet

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

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