Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 84 · 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 of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) dark green (d) sky blue
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) pink (d) dark green
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
4. 4.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) value scale (c) palette (d) colour wheel
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) pale yellow
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) pink (d) sky blue
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) dark green
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pink (c) light blue (d) navy blue
9. 9.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) light green
13. 13.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) dark green (d) dark red
15. 15.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
19. 19.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) lilac
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) sky blue
23. 23.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) water to black (c) white to black (d) a little colour to white
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) dark red (d) light blue
26. 26.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
31. 31.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
37. 37.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) maroon
40. 40.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False

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