Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 577 · 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.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) light green (d) bottle green
5. 5.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) maroon
7. 7.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) pink (c) light green (d) light blue
9. 9.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) pink (d) sky blue
16. 16.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) black to colour (c) a little colour to white (d) white to black
17. 17.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) lilac
21. 21.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) pink
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
23. 23.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) dark red
27. 27.🎨 Is pale yellow 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 paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) palette
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
33. 33.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) dark green
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) light green
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
38. 38.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) sky blue

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