Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 336 · 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 dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) bottle green
3. 3.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) navy blue
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) light green
9. 9.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) pink (d) bottle green
12. 12.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
14. 14.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
15. 15.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) pink
16. 16.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark purple (b) sky blue (c) lilac (d) light blue
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) light green
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) maroon
23. 23.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
28. 28.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) dark green (d) bottle green
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) pink
32. 32.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) value scale (c) colour wheel (d) horizon line
33. 33.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) light blue
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) dark red
36. 36.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) lilac
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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