Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 682 · 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 light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
8. 8.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
9. 9.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) pale yellow (c) navy blue (d) dark purple
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) light blue (d) dark red
14. 14.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) light green
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
18. 18.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) navy blue
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) light green (d) sky blue
22. 22.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
25. 25.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) value scale
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) dark green
27. 27.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
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) light blue
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) navy blue (d) dark green
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) maroon (d) dark red
32. 32.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
34. 34.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white

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