Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 490 · 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 paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
3. 3.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
4. 4.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
13. 13.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) pink (d) bottle green
15. 15.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) light green
16. 16.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) light green
18. 18.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
21. 21.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) pink
23. 23.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) maroon (d) pink
25. 25.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) dark red (d) light blue
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
28. 28.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
30. 30.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) light green (c) lilac (d) light blue
31. 31.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) pink
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) pink (d) dark green
37. 37.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False

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