Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 422 · 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 shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) navy blue (d) pink
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) sky blue
4. 4.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
6. 6.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) sky blue
10. 10.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
14. 14.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) pink (c) light green (d) light blue
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) lilac (d) bottle green
19. 19.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
20. 20.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) maroon (c) pink (d) lilac
27. 27.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) maroon
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
30. 30.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) lilac
31. 31.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) lilac
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) value scale (c) palette (d) colour wheel
39. 39.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) white to black (c) water to black (d) black to colour

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