Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 679 · 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 lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
2. 2.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
4. 4.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) navy blue
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) lilac
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) lilac
9. 9.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) maroon (d) lilac
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) dark red
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
18. 18.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) navy blue
19. 19.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) pink
21. 21.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) white to black
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pink (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
23. 23.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) value scale (c) palette (d) horizon line
27. 27.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) maroon
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
34. 34.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) sky blue
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) dark red
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) light blue
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) pink

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