Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 368 · 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) light green (b) sky blue (c) navy blue (d) pink
2. 2.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
4. 4.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) bottle green
9. 9.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) light blue
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) lilac
12. 12.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
13. 13.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) light green (d) navy blue
18. 18.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
21. 21.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) maroon (d) sky blue
23. 23.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) light blue
24. 24.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) black to colour (c) white to black (d) water to black
27. 27.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) dark red
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) dark green
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
33. 33.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) maroon
34. 34.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
35. 35.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
36. 36.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light green (c) pale yellow (d) maroon
40. 40.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale

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