Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 412 · 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 darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
2. 2.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) dark red (d) light blue
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) light green
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
13. 13.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) maroon (c) pink (d) sky blue
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) light blue
16. 16.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) maroon
22. 22.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
25. 25.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark purple (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) light green (c) pink (d) pale yellow
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) lilac (d) navy blue
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) dark red
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) white to black (c) a little colour to white (d) water to black

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