Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 64 · 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 lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
2. 2.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) navy blue (d) bottle green
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) lilac (d) light blue
7. 7.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark red (c) light green (d) pale yellow
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) navy blue (c) lilac (d) light blue
10. 10.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) sky blue (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) light blue
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) light blue
18. 18.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) light blue (d) dark green
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) sky blue
22. 22.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) black to colour (c) white to black (d) a little colour to white
23. 23.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) pink
28. 28.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
30. 30.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
31. 31.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) pink (d) light blue
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) pink
35. 35.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) value scale
39. 39.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint

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