Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 315 · 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 of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) maroon
4. 4.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) bottle green (d) light blue
7. 7.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) dark green
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
13. 13.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) dark green
15. 15.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) sky blue
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) light green
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
20. 20.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
22. 22.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
23. 23.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
25. 25.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark green
28. 28.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
29. 29.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) a little colour to white (c) white to black (d) black to colour
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) bottle green
31. 31.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
32. 32.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) light blue
33. 33.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) colour wheel (c) value scale (d) horizon line
34. 34.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) maroon (d) dark red
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
39. 39.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) bottle green
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) light blue

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