Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 656 · 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.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
6. 6.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) dark green (d) dark purple
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
10. 10.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
12. 12.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
13. 13.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) bottle green (d) dark red
15. 15.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) pink
19. 19.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) black to colour (c) water to black (d) a little colour to white
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) lilac
21. 21.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) light green
23. 23.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) dark purple
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) lilac
29. 29.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) light green (c) dark red (d) navy blue
34. 34.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
39. 39.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) dark green (d) bottle green

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