Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 494 · 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) light green (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) pink
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
4. 4.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
5. 5.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
7. 7.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) dark green (d) dark purple
11. 11.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
15. 15.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
20. 20.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) maroon
22. 22.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
23. 23.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
27. 27.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) maroon
31. 31.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) maroon
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
37. 37.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
38. 38.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
39. 39.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) light green

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