Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 798 · 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 make a tint? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) lilac (c) light green (d) light blue
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) dark green (d) pink
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) dark red
7. 7.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
8. 8.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
9. 9.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) bottle green (d) dark purple
11. 11.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) light green
14. 14.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) sky blue
18. 18.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) navy blue
23. 23.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) water to black (c) a little colour to white (d) white to black
24. 24.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) pink
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) shade (c) tint
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) light green
36. 36.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) lilac
37. 37.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
39. 39.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) navy blue
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) sky blue

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