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