Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 885 · 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 blue to make sky blue? (a) black (b) white
2. 2.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) dark green
3. 3.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) navy blue (c) lilac (d) light green
7. 7.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) light blue (d) navy blue
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
9. 9.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) pink
10. 10.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) bottle green
14. 14.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) dark purple
18. 18.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
22. 22.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) light blue
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
27. 27.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) pink (d) dark red
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
30. 30.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
31. 31.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) water to black (c) white to black (d) black to colour
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
33. 33.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) light blue
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light green (b) bottle green (c) maroon (d) dark purple
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) light green
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) dark purple (d) pink
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) palette

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