Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 41 · 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 blue (b) dark red (c) light green (d) pink
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) pink (d) navy blue
3. 3.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) dark green
7. 7.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.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
15. 15.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) light green
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) navy blue (d) light blue
23. 23.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) lilac (d) pink
27. 27.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) light blue
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) pink
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) sky blue (c) maroon (d) bottle green
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) navy blue
33. 33.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
35. 35.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) maroon
37. 37.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) palette (c) horizon line (d) value scale
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) pink
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow

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