Tints and Shades Worksheet

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

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