Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 688 · 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 is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
2. 2.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
3. 3.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
4. 4.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
6. 6.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) pink
13. 13.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
21. 21.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) lilac
22. 22.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) horizon line (c) colour wheel (d) palette
23. 23.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) water to black (c) black to colour (d) white to black
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) maroon (d) navy blue
25. 25.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) maroon (d) lilac
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
28. 28.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue (c) lilac (d) pale yellow
31. 31.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
32. 32.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) navy blue
35. 35.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) dark red (d) lilac
36. 36.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) navy blue
39. 39.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) dark red
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) dark green (c) bottle green (d) maroon

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