Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 87 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) light green (d) dark red
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
4. 4.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) dark red
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) pink
7. 7.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) maroon
9. 9.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
13. 13.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale
14. 14.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) light blue (d) bottle green
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) navy blue
18. 18.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
20. 20.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) maroon
24. 24.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) sky blue
26. 26.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) light green (c) dark red (d) dark purple
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) dark green
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) navy blue
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
35. 35.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
36. 36.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) a little colour to white (c) water to black (d) black to colour
37. 37.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) lilac
38. 38.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
40. 40.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) dark green (c) light blue (d) pale yellow

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