Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 638 · 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) sky blue (b) lilac (c) light green (d) dark red
2. 2.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) pink
6. 6.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
8. 8.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) bottle green
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) maroon
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
17. 17.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) lilac (d) sky blue
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
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.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) lilac
24. 24.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
25. 25.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
26. 26.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
31. 31.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) pink (d) navy blue

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