Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 66 · 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 paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
3. 3.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark red (d) light green
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) light green
6. 6.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
8. 8.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) bottle green
10. 10.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) maroon
12. 12.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark green
16. 16.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
17. 17.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
20. 20.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) light green
29. 29.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) lilac
30. 30.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) light green (d) dark purple
32. 32.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
34. 34.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) pink (d) bottle green
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False

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