Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 677 · 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 pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
3. 3.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
5. 5.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) navy blue (d) light blue
7. 7.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) maroon (d) light blue
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) dark green
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) maroon (d) bottle green
23. 23.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) light green
24. 24.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
26. 26.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) palette (d) value scale
28. 28.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) light blue (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
32. 32.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) lilac (d) pink
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
38. 38.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False

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