Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 742 · 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 is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
2. 2.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) maroon (d) light green
4. 4.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) pink (d) sky blue
6. 6.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) light green (d) light blue
8. 8.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) black to colour (c) a little colour to white (d) white to black
9. 9.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) lilac
13. 13.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
17. 17.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) bottle green (d) light blue
19. 19.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
20. 20.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) light green (d) bottle green
23. 23.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
24. 24.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
27. 27.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) dark green (d) lilac
30. 30.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
37. 37.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark purple (b) light blue (c) pink (d) sky blue
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
39. 39.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False

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