Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 760 · 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: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) pink
5. 5.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) lilac
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) light blue (c) light green (d) dark red
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) light green (d) sky blue
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue (c) lilac (d) pale yellow
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) dark green
16. 16.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) maroon
18. 18.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) dark red
19. 19.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
20. 20.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
22. 22.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) maroon
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark green (c) pink (d) pale yellow
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) maroon
26. 26.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
27. 27.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
30. 30.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) light blue
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) pink
35. 35.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
40. 40.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue

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