Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 703 · 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 darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) pink
4. 4.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) maroon
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) light green
7. 7.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) horizon line (c) colour wheel (d) value scale
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) light green (d) maroon
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) pink (c) light blue (d) sky blue
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) light green (d) light blue
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) light blue
16. 16.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
19. 19.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) black to colour (c) water to black (d) a little colour to white
22. 22.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
23. 23.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
25. 25.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
27. 27.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) sky blue (d) navy blue
28. 28.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
30. 30.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) lilac
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) sky blue
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) pink
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) bottle green

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