Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 559 · 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.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) bottle green
4. 4.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) light blue
5. 5.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) pink
7. 7.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
9. 9.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
13. 13.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) value scale (c) palette (d) horizon line
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
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 red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) sky blue
18. 18.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
21. 21.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) white to black (c) black to colour (d) water to black
22. 22.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
24. 24.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) bottle green
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) pink (d) lilac
32. 32.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
33. 33.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark green (c) pink (d) dark red
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue (c) light green (d) pink
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) dark red
38. 38.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) pink (d) sky blue
40. 40.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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