Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 61 · 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) light green (b) bottle green (c) pale yellow (d) pink
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) dark green
4. 4.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) light green
7. 7.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) dark purple
9. 9.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) water to black
10. 10.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
15. 15.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) dark red
18. 18.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) dark red
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) pink
23. 23.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) pink (d) navy blue
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) pink (d) pale yellow
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) value scale (c) colour wheel (d) palette
31. 31.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
35. 35.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) pale yellow (d) light green
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
39. 39.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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