Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 522 · 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 lighter? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
4. 4.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) sky blue
6. 6.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
8. 8.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark purple (b) pale yellow (c) light blue (d) lilac
11. 11.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
13. 13.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) sky blue (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
18. 18.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) maroon
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: you should add white 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 of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) dark green (d) dark red
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) lilac
25. 25.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) pink (d) maroon
27. 27.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
29. 29.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) lilac
31. 31.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) light green
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) light green (d) dark red
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) pale yellow (d) sky blue
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
35. 35.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
38. 38.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) pink

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