Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 761 · 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 the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
2. 2.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) dark green (d) pink
4. 4.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) dark red (d) light blue
7. 7.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
9. 9.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) navy blue (d) light green
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
13. 13.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) pink
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) horizon line
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) maroon (d) light blue
18. 18.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) lilac (d) dark red
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
23. 23.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) sky blue (c) pale yellow (d) pink
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pink (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) dark red
29. 29.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) lilac
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow
31. 31.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
37. 37.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) sky blue
39. 39.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False

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