Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 576 · 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 paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) light green (d) dark green
5. 5.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) water to black (c) white to black (d) a little colour to white
8. 8.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) lilac
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) pink (d) dark green
11. 11.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) pink (d) lilac
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) bottle green
17. 17.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) dark red (d) light blue
20. 20.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) lilac (d) navy blue
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) maroon (c) sky blue (d) pink
24. 24.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) sky blue
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) navy blue
29. 29.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) sky blue
30. 30.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
37. 37.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) lilac (d) dark purple
39. 39.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
40. 40.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True

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