Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 440 · 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 colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) pale yellow (d) light green
4. 4.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) dark purple
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) maroon
9. 9.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) maroon
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) light green (d) pink
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) dark green
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) dark red
14. 14.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) bottle green
18. 18.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
20. 20.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
22. 22.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) a little colour to white (c) water to black (d) white to black
23. 23.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) pink (d) light blue
27. 27.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) value scale
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) maroon
31. 31.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
35. 35.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
36. 36.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
37. 37.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False

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