Tints and Shades Worksheet

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

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