Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 389 · 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.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) navy blue (d) light green
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) navy blue
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) light blue (c) dark purple (d) maroon
13. 13.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
14. 14.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) value scale (d) palette
18. 18.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) light green (d) dark purple
20. 20.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) dark purple (d) dark red
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) pink
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
25. 25.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
30. 30.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) black to colour (c) a little colour to white (d) water to black
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
32. 32.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
36. 36.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
37. 37.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) maroon
39. 39.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False

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