Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 870 · 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.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) pink
5. 5.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
7. 7.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) maroon (d) light green
10. 10.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
12. 12.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
13. 13.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
15. 15.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) light green
20. 20.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) light blue
21. 21.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
23. 23.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
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) maroon
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) dark green (d) lilac
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) pale yellow (c) pink (d) lilac
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
31. 31.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) lilac
33. 33.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) sky blue (c) dark red (d) light blue
37. 37.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) dark purple (d) maroon
38. 38.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) light green
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True

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