Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 341 · 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 green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) dark red
3. 3.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
5. 5.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
6. 6.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
10. 10.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) pink
13. 13.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) bottle green
14. 14.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
20. 20.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) light green
23. 23.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
24. 24.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) light blue
26. 26.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) palette (d) value scale
27. 27.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) pink (d) pale yellow
28. 28.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) lilac
30. 30.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
33. 33.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
35. 35.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) light green (d) pink
37. 37.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
39. 39.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint

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