Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 350 · 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) lilac (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
2. 2.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
4. 4.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) maroon
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) dark purple (d) pink
7. 7.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) pink (d) maroon
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
16. 16.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
20. 20.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
22. 22.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
24. 24.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) white to black (c) black to colour (d) a little colour to white
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
28. 28.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) pale yellow (c) light blue (d) pink
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) sky blue (d) dark green
36. 36.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) bottle green
38. 38.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) pale yellow (c) navy blue (d) maroon
40. 40.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True

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