Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 340 · 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) navy blue (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) dark purple
2. 2.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) lilac
6. 6.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) pink (d) pale yellow
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale
14. 14.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) light green (d) dark green
16. 16.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue (c) pink (d) pale yellow
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) sky blue (d) bottle green
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) light green
23. 23.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) black to colour (c) a little colour to white (d) white to black
24. 24.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
25. 25.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark purple (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) pink
27. 27.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) bottle green
31. 31.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True

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