Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 737 · 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 red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
6. 6.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) light blue
8. 8.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
9. 9.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) dark purple
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pale yellow (c) maroon (d) navy blue
18. 18.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) palette (c) colour wheel (d) value scale
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) dark purple
21. 21.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) sky blue
23. 23.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
26. 26.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
27. 27.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) dark purple (d) maroon
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) lilac (d) dark red
31. 31.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) pink
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) light blue
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
34. 34.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) light green (d) maroon
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) bottle green
39. 39.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade

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