Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 860 · 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) white (b) black
2. 2.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint
4. 4.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) light green (d) sky blue
6. 6.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) pale yellow (d) dark green
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) light blue (d) pink
9. 9.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) light blue
10. 10.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) light green (c) pink (d) light blue
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) value scale
13. 13.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
16. 16.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) light green
18. 18.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
20. 20.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
24. 24.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) light blue
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) pale yellow
26. 26.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) pink
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
32. 32.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) dark purple (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) maroon (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) pink
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) bottle green
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) pink (d) light blue
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) light green (d) pink
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black

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