Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 744 · 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 blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) pale yellow (d) sky blue
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) navy blue (c) light blue (d) lilac
4. 4.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) bottle green (d) pale yellow
6. 6.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
7. 7.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
8. 8.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
9. 9.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) pink
13. 13.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) pink (d) maroon
14. 14.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) navy blue
18. 18.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
21. 21.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) light green (d) light blue
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) maroon
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
24. 24.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) light green (d) bottle green
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.True or false: dark red 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 is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
31. 31.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) dark red
36. 36.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
37. 37.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale
38. 38.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) black to colour (c) water to black (d) white to black
39. 39.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False

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