Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 840 · 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: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
3. 3.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) light blue (d) bottle green
4. 4.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) dark green
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) bottle green (c) pale yellow (d) dark purple
7. 7.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) dark green
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
10. 10.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) navy blue
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) light blue
14. 14.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
17. 17.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
18. 18.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) light green (c) dark red (d) dark green
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) dark green
24. 24.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
26. 26.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) light green
30. 30.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
31. 31.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) maroon (c) light green (d) light blue
35. 35.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) bottle green
37. 37.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
38. 38.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) black to colour (c) water to black (d) white to black
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) dark red

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