Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 647 · 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.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
3. 3.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
5. 5.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) sky blue (d) light blue
12. 12.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
16. 16.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) white to black
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) pink (d) bottle green
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) light green
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
22. 22.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) lilac (c) maroon (d) light blue
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) pink
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
31. 31.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
35. 35.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
36. 36.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) maroon
38. 38.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) bottle green
40. 40.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False

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