Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 544 · 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.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) value scale (d) palette
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
7. 7.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
8. 8.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
10. 10.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) lilac
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) lilac
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) light blue
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) light blue
15. 15.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) dark purple
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) pink
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) dark green
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark green
25. 25.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) sky blue
26. 26.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
29. 29.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
30. 30.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) sky blue (c) bottle green (d) maroon
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
35. 35.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) lilac
37. 37.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
38. 38.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) water to black (c) a little colour to white (d) white to black
39. 39.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint

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