Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 46 · 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.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pink (c) lilac (d) dark red
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) light green
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
7. 7.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
8. 8.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
9. 9.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) light blue (c) dark purple (d) maroon
11. 11.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
13. 13.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) lilac
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
26. 26.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) dark green
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) dark red
31. 31.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
33. 33.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
37. 37.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) sky blue
40. 40.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade

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