Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 877 · 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 colour darker? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pink (c) light blue (d) dark green
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
7. 7.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) water to black
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
12. 12.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) dark red
13. 13.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) dark red
14. 14.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) dark red (d) pink
19. 19.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) dark purple
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) dark green
23. 23.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) lilac
24. 24.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) lilac (d) navy blue
25. 25.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
26. 26.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) white (b) black
29. 29.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
30. 30.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) light green (d) maroon
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) maroon (c) dark green (d) bottle green
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) light green (c) lilac (d) pink
37. 37.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) lilac (c) pink (d) light blue
39. 39.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade

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