Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 303 · 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: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) navy blue (d) light green
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) dark red
6. 6.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light blue (c) light green (d) dark red
9. 9.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark purple
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) horizon line
13. 13.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
15. 15.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
16. 16.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) maroon
20. 20.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
21. 21.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) navy blue
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) maroon
26. 26.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
27. 27.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) water to black (c) a little colour to white (d) black to colour
28. 28.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) light green (d) pale yellow
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) pink (d) dark red
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
32. 32.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
35. 35.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
36. 36.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) sky blue
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) navy blue

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