Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 717 · 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.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) light green
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) dark purple
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) dark green
14. 14.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) navy blue
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) dark purple
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) light blue
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) light blue (d) dark red
21. 21.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) lilac (d) dark green
25. 25.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
27. 27.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) maroon
32. 32.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
34. 34.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) lilac
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) dark red
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) pink
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) lilac (c) light green (d) sky blue
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False

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