Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 841 · 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: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) navy blue (d) maroon
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) light green (d) maroon
4. 4.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) light green (d) dark red
5. 5.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) pale yellow
7. 7.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) dark green (d) dark purple
13. 13.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) light blue (d) maroon
18. 18.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) sky blue
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
20. 20.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
21. 21.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) lilac
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) maroon
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) value scale
26. 26.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) pink
29. 29.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) pink
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
33. 33.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) white to black (c) a little colour to white (d) black to colour
38. 38.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) light blue (d) pink
40. 40.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True

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