Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 477 · 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 of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) light blue (d) sky blue
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) dark red
4. 4.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
6. 6.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) light green (d) light blue
9. 9.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark green (c) light blue (d) pink
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) navy blue (d) dark green
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark purple (c) bottle green (d) maroon
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) sky blue
23. 23.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) black to colour (c) white to black (d) a little colour to white
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) dark green
25. 25.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) pink (d) bottle green
28. 28.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) lilac
29. 29.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue (c) pink (d) pale yellow
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
36. 36.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
40. 40.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue

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