Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 304 · 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 make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) lilac
3. 3.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
5. 5.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) pink (d) navy blue
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
7. 7.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) horizon line (c) palette (d) colour wheel
10. 10.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) dark green
15. 15.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
19. 19.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
20. 20.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) water to black (c) black to colour (d) white to black
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) bottle green
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
23. 23.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) light green
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) pale yellow
30. 30.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
31. 31.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) pink
36. 36.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
39. 39.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False

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