Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 508 · 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 pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
2. 2.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) light green (c) pink (d) sky blue
4. 4.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pink (c) pale yellow (d) dark purple
14. 14.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) bottle green
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
20. 20.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
23. 23.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) maroon
25. 25.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) light blue
26. 26.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark purple (c) bottle green (d) dark red
29. 29.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) sky blue
34. 34.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
35. 35.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
39. 39.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) value scale (c) palette (d) horizon line
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True

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