Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 394 · 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) light blue (c) lilac (d) maroon
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
4. 4.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) light green
6. 6.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
10. 10.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
11. 11.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) pink
13. 13.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
15. 15.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) navy blue
22. 22.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
26. 26.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) black to colour (c) white to black (d) a little colour to white
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) pink (d) maroon
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) lilac (d) dark green
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) dark green
35. 35.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) bottle green
39. 39.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False

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