Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 415 · 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.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) navy blue
5. 5.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) pink
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
10. 10.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) lilac (d) light blue
13. 13.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
14. 14.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
15. 15.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
16. 16.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) dark green
18. 18.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
21. 21.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) bottle green (d) pink
23. 23.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) dark purple
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light green (c) pink (d) lilac
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) light green (c) lilac (d) sky blue
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) pink
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) sky blue (d) light green
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) light blue
39. 39.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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