Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 349 · 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 make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
2. 2.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) bottle green
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) sky blue (c) navy blue (d) light blue
7. 7.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) dark purple
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) pink
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) pink
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) light green
12. 12.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
13. 13.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) light green (d) pale yellow
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) bottle green
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
22. 22.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) palette (c) value scale (d) horizon line
24. 24.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
25. 25.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
30. 30.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
34. 34.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
39. 39.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) pale yellow (d) dark green

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