Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 710 · 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 colour darker? (a) white (b) black
2. 2.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
5. 5.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) pink (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark red (c) pink (d) light blue
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) pink (d) bottle green
11. 11.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) lilac
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
14. 14.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
16. 16.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) navy blue (c) light green (d) dark green
19. 19.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) palette (c) value scale (d) colour wheel
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
22. 22.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) navy blue
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) maroon
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark green (c) light blue (d) dark purple
27. 27.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) dark purple
30. 30.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
31. 31.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
34. 34.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) pink
35. 35.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
36. 36.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) water to black (c) a little colour to white (d) black to colour
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True

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