Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 485 · 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 blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) dark red
4. 4.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) dark green
9. 9.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) light green
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) lilac (d) maroon
12. 12.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) dark purple
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
15. 15.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) light green (c) dark green (d) dark purple
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) sky blue
20. 20.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) white to black (c) a little colour to white (d) black to colour
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
22. 22.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) maroon
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) lilac (d) dark purple
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) navy blue
26. 26.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
27. 27.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
28. 28.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) value scale (c) palette (d) horizon line
29. 29.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light green (c) dark purple (d) dark red
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) pink
32. 32.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
33. 33.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
36. 36.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) dark red
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) sky blue
40. 40.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True

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