Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 292 · 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) pink (b) pale yellow (c) dark purple (d) light green
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) sky blue (c) bottle green (d) light green
4. 4.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
6. 6.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) navy blue
9. 9.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
10. 10.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
13. 13.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
15. 15.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) light blue
20. 20.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) pink (d) pale yellow
22. 22.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
23. 23.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) maroon
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
27. 27.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) bottle green
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) maroon (c) light green (d) dark red
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.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
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) pink
37. 37.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
39. 39.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True

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