Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 622 · 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 green (b) dark purple (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
2. 2.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) pink (d) maroon
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) navy blue (c) light blue (d) lilac
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) light green (d) light blue
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) light green (d) dark green
11. 11.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
12. 12.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) light green (c) dark purple (d) lilac
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark green (c) lilac (d) sky blue
17. 17.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) sky blue
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) light green
25. 25.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
26. 26.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) black to colour (c) water to black (d) a little colour to white
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark green (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
31. 31.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
32. 32.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) pink
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) dark red
35. 35.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) sky blue (c) pale yellow (d) pink
37. 37.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
38. 38.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False

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