Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 709 · 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) light blue (d) sky blue
2. 2.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) dark green
6. 6.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
7. 7.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) dark red
8. 8.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) navy blue (d) maroon
11. 11.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) bottle green
14. 14.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) maroon
16. 16.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
22. 22.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
23. 23.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) dark red (d) lilac
24. 24.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) navy blue (d) light green
26. 26.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) light green
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark green (c) pink (d) light blue
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) lilac
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) sky blue (d) light blue
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
38. 38.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) value scale (c) horizon line (d) palette
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) water to black

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