Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 648 · 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 lighter. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) lilac (d) maroon
6. 6.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) water to black
7. 7.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
8. 8.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
9. 9.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) light blue (d) dark purple
13. 13.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
15. 15.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) bottle green (d) dark purple
18. 18.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) navy blue (d) light blue
21. 21.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) light green (d) sky blue
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) maroon
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pink (c) lilac (d) light green
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) dark purple
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) navy blue (c) pink (d) sky blue
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
37. 37.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) pink
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) pink
40. 40.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False

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