Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 346 · 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) light blue (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) dark green
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) maroon
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) maroon (d) light green
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) dark green
7. 7.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) water to black (c) a little colour to white (d) black to colour
8. 8.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) light green
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) light green (d) pale yellow
15. 15.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pink (c) lilac (d) bottle green
18. 18.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
21. 21.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
22. 22.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
24. 24.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
27. 27.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
28. 28.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) dark red
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) light green
34. 34.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
35. 35.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) horizon line (c) value scale (d) colour wheel
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
38. 38.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True

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