Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 478 · 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.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) navy blue (d) maroon
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) dark red
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) light blue (d) navy blue
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) light green
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
13. 13.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
15. 15.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
17. 17.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) dark green (d) light blue
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) maroon (d) dark red
24. 24.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
26. 26.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) pink (c) maroon (d) dark red
28. 28.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) horizon line (c) colour wheel (d) value scale
31. 31.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
32. 32.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
33. 33.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) sky blue
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) lilac
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) dark red
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) light green
38. 38.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True

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