Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 565 · 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 of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) pink
2. 2.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) dark green (c) lilac (d) sky blue
4. 4.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) sky blue (c) navy blue (d) dark purple
6. 6.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
8. 8.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) dark red
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
15. 15.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
16. 16.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
19. 19.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) pink
20. 20.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint
21. 21.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
22. 22.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) dark green (d) navy blue
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) light green
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
27. 27.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) white to black (c) black to colour (d) a little colour to white
28. 28.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
29. 29.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
30. 30.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
32. 32.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) dark red
34. 34.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
36. 36.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) lilac (d) dark purple
39. 39.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False

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