Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 548 · 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 is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
5. 5.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
9. 9.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
12. 12.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
13. 13.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) pink
15. 15.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) water to black (c) black to colour (d) white to black
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
25. 25.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) maroon
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) dark green
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) pink
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
35. 35.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
37. 37.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) palette (c) horizon line (d) value scale
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) dark green
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) maroon
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False

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