Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 590 · 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) True (b) False
2. 2.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light green (c) light blue (d) dark purple
5. 5.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
9. 9.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) dark red (d) light blue
11. 11.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) light green (d) lilac
14. 14.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
15. 15.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) sky blue (c) pink (d) maroon
17. 17.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) pink (d) dark red
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
21. 21.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) dark green
23. 23.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
24. 24.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) pink
25. 25.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) light green (d) pale yellow
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) maroon (d) bottle green
30. 30.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) maroon
32. 32.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) palette (c) colour wheel (d) value scale
33. 33.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
36. 36.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white

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