Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 489 · 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 dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) navy blue (c) lilac (d) pink
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) pink
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
6. 6.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
7. 7.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) dark purple
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) dark red
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) navy blue (d) lilac
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) light green
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) dark green (d) pink
21. 21.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
23. 23.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) lilac
26. 26.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark red (c) pink (d) lilac
29. 29.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) light blue
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
33. 33.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
36. 36.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
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) lilac

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