Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 326 · 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.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) palette (c) value scale (d) horizon line
3. 3.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow
5. 5.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) bottle green (d) lilac
7. 7.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) light green
8. 8.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
10. 10.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
13. 13.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
15. 15.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) light green
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) dark green
18. 18.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) maroon
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) light blue
23. 23.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
30. 30.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
31. 31.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) bottle green
33. 33.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
34. 34.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) pink (d) maroon
35. 35.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) maroon (d) light green
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
39. 39.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) black to colour (c) water to black (d) a little colour to white

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