Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 423 · 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 paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) light green (d) bottle green
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) bottle green
5. 5.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
6. 6.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) lilac
9. 9.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
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark purple
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) pink (d) dark red
13. 13.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) palette (c) value scale (d) horizon line
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) dark green
21. 21.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) pale yellow (d) dark purple
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) pink
24. 24.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) lilac
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) sky blue
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) dark green
28. 28.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) lilac (d) light green
30. 30.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) light green (d) lilac
32. 32.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
36. 36.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) light blue
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) dark green

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