Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 697 · 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) dark purple (c) lilac (d) light green
2. 2.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) light green (c) lilac (d) light blue
4. 4.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) light green (d) lilac
7. 7.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) value scale (d) palette
8. 8.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) dark purple (d) dark red
9. 9.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) pale yellow (d) light green
12. 12.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
13. 13.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) light green
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) water to black (c) black to colour (d) a little colour to white
17. 17.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) pink
21. 21.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
23. 23.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) lilac (d) pink
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) bottle green
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) pink (d) light blue
32. 32.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
36. 36.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white

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