Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 621 · 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) light blue (b) dark red (c) light green (d) lilac
2. 2.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) light green
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
7. 7.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
9. 9.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
15. 15.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
17. 17.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) white to black (c) water to black (d) black to colour
21. 21.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
24. 24.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) lilac
25. 25.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) dark red (d) dark purple
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) maroon
29. 29.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) light green
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) sky blue
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
40. 40.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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