Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 417 · 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.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) navy blue
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) pink
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) light green (b) pink (c) light blue (d) maroon
8. 8.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) sky blue (c) lilac (d) light blue
11. 11.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
13. 13.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
18. 18.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
20. 20.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) water to black
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) light blue
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) pink
23. 23.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) dark green
26. 26.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
28. 28.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
30. 30.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) dark purple
32. 32.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) navy blue
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) sky blue
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
37. 37.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
39. 39.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black

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