Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 77 · 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: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
3. 3.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
4. 4.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
7. 7.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
8. 8.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) lilac (d) light green
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) dark green
12. 12.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
13. 13.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
14. 14.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) dark purple
20. 20.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
21. 21.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light green (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) dark green
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
25. 25.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
26. 26.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
31. 31.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
32. 32.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
34. 34.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) light blue (c) maroon (d) dark green
39. 39.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) lilac
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) dark green

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