Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 566 · 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) dark red (c) pink (d) lilac
2. 2.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) light green
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) light blue (c) light green (d) dark red
5. 5.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
6. 6.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
7. 7.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) pink
9. 9.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) light green
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) navy blue (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
13. 13.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) bottle green
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) lilac (d) maroon
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) pale yellow (c) maroon (d) dark red
18. 18.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) lilac
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
21. 21.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
23. 23.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) dark red
25. 25.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) dark green
27. 27.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) light green (d) navy blue
30. 30.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
33. 33.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) sky blue (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
37. 37.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
38. 38.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
39. 39.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True

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