Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 396 · 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 is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
2. 2.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) navy blue
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) dark green
9. 9.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) sky blue
13. 13.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) light green (d) dark red
15. 15.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light green (c) lilac (d) sky blue
21. 21.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
22. 22.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
25. 25.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) light blue
28. 28.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
31. 31.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
35. 35.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) maroon
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
39. 39.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
40. 40.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False

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