Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 435 · 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 the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) dark purple
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) pale yellow (d) maroon
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) dark green
4. 4.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) dark green (c) lilac (d) pink
7. 7.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) palette
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) maroon
13. 13.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) white to black (c) black to colour (d) water to black
15. 15.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) navy blue
18. 18.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) light green (c) maroon (d) dark green
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) sky blue (c) lilac (d) light green
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) pink
25. 25.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue (c) pink (d) lilac
29. 29.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) dark red
33. 33.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
35. 35.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
40. 40.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) pink (d) light green

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