Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 348 · 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 shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pale yellow (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) sky blue
10. 10.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
12. 12.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
20. 20.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) value scale (c) colour wheel (d) horizon line
21. 21.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) lilac
23. 23.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) lilac (d) dark purple
25. 25.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) dark red
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) lilac (c) maroon (d) bottle green
28. 28.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) lilac
29. 29.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) sky blue (d) dark green
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) dark red
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
33. 33.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) a little colour to white (c) water to black (d) black to colour
34. 34.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) light blue
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) light green (d) pink
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) dark green
40. 40.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green

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