Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 689 · 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 of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) lilac
2. 2.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) pink (c) lilac (d) light blue
6. 6.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) sky blue (c) maroon (d) lilac
9. 9.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
12. 12.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
13. 13.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) palette (c) horizon line (d) value scale
14. 14.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) a little colour to white (c) water to black (d) white to black
15. 15.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
18. 18.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) bottle green
23. 23.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) light green (c) maroon (d) dark green
26. 26.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
28. 28.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
29. 29.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) light green
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) sky blue (c) pale yellow (d) pink
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) dark green
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) lilac (d) dark red
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) maroon
39. 39.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) light blue (d) dark red

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