Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 479 · 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) dark purple (c) light blue (d) pink
2. 2.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
4. 4.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
9. 9.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) dark green (d) light green
12. 12.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) navy blue
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) dark red
15. 15.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) horizon line (c) value scale (d) colour wheel
16. 16.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) white to black (c) a little colour to white (d) water to black
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) dark purple
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) sky blue
19. 19.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) light blue
21. 21.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue (c) lilac (d) light green
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) maroon (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) light green (d) bottle green
25. 25.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
28. 28.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
33. 33.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) bottle green
34. 34.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) light green (d) pink
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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