Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 600 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) light green (d) sky blue
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
5. 5.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) pink
10. 10.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
12. 12.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) dark red
15. 15.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
18. 18.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) pink (d) light green
21. 21.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) horizon line (c) palette (d) colour wheel
22. 22.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) dark green
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
27. 27.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) light green
32. 32.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
34. 34.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) bottle green
36. 36.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) pink
38. 38.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green

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