Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 63 · 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 blue (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) dark red
2. 2.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
6. 6.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) light blue
9. 9.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) lilac
11. 11.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
13. 13.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) value scale
15. 15.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) pale yellow (d) light blue
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
23. 23.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
27. 27.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) light green (d) dark purple
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) light green
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
30. 30.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
32. 32.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
33. 33.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
34. 34.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) white to black (c) a little colour to white (d) water to black
35. 35.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white

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