Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 871 · 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 tint (b) a shade
2. 2.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) maroon
4. 4.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pink (c) dark red (d) light blue
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) lilac
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) dark red
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) sky blue
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) pale yellow
11. 11.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
12. 12.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light green (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) navy blue (d) light blue
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
19. 19.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: lilac is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) lilac (c) dark green (d) light blue
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
30. 30.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
31. 31.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
35. 35.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) pink (d) sky blue
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
38. 38.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) dark red

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