Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 865 · 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: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
4. 4.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) sky blue
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) pink
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) light blue (d) light green
10. 10.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) pale yellow
13. 13.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
14. 14.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) light blue
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) lilac (d) dark red
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
19. 19.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) pink (c) dark red (d) maroon
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) pink (d) dark red
22. 22.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) dark red
27. 27.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint
28. 28.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) lilac
30. 30.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) lilac
32. 32.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light green (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) dark red
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) light blue (d) pale yellow
34. 34.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale
35. 35.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) black to colour (c) white to black (d) water to black
36. 36.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
39. 39.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade

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