Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 288 · 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) pink (b) dark red (c) sky blue (d) lilac
2. 2.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) maroon (c) light green (d) bottle green
4. 4.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pink (c) light green (d) light blue
6. 6.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
8. 8.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) pink (d) light green
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) maroon (d) dark green
16. 16.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
19. 19.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
20. 20.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) dark green
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
24. 24.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) dark green
26. 26.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
28. 28.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) white to black
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) maroon (d) dark red
32. 32.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) light blue
38. 38.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) light blue (d) navy blue
40. 40.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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