Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 704 · 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 paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) pink
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) maroon
6. 6.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) pink
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) lilac
9. 9.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
16. 16.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
18. 18.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) pink (d) dark red
20. 20.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
22. 22.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) lilac (d) pink
25. 25.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) dark green
27. 27.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pink (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
28. 28.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) black to colour (c) white to black (d) water to black
29. 29.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
30. 30.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark purple (b) pink (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
31. 31.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) pink (d) dark red
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light green (c) light blue (d) pink
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
36. 36.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) maroon (d) dark red

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