Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 645 · 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) pink (b) light green (c) dark green (d) sky blue
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) pale yellow (d) light green
4. 4.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
9. 9.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
11. 11.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) sky blue (d) maroon
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) pink (d) dark purple
17. 17.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) water to black (c) white to black (d) a little colour to white
19. 19.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) palette (c) horizon line (d) colour wheel
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
21. 21.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
23. 23.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
26. 26.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) light green
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) lilac
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) light green
33. 33.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
34. 34.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) light green
36. 36.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) dark purple
38. 38.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) light blue (d) dark red

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