Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 390 · 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 tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) pink (d) dark red
2. 2.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) dark green
4. 4.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pink (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
7. 7.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) sky blue
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) pink (d) maroon
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
13. 13.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark green (c) lilac (d) pale yellow
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
18. 18.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) light blue (d) dark purple
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) light blue (c) light green (d) lilac
22. 22.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
23. 23.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
24. 24.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) maroon (d) lilac
25. 25.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) white to black (c) a little colour to white (d) black to colour
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
33. 33.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) light green (d) dark green
35. 35.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) value scale (d) palette
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) navy blue
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) lilac

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