Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 662 · 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.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) bottle green
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow
4. 4.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
5. 5.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) pink
8. 8.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
12. 12.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) dark purple
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) sky blue (c) maroon (d) pink
17. 17.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
22. 22.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
27. 27.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
28. 28.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) dark green
30. 30.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) sky blue
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) light green
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) navy blue (d) light green
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) pink
39. 39.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
40. 40.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) pink (d) light green

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