Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 896 · 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 of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) pale yellow (d) navy blue
2. 2.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
4. 4.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) light green
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
7. 7.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) dark red
10. 10.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
12. 12.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) sky blue
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
15. 15.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
19. 19.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) light green (d) light blue
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
22. 22.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tone (b) tint (c) shade
23. 23.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) light blue
25. 25.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) sky blue
28. 28.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) a little colour to white (c) black to colour (d) white to black
30. 30.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
32. 32.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
33. 33.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) dark red (d) pink
35. 35.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
36. 36.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) palette (c) colour wheel (d) horizon line
37. 37.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
38. 38.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
39. 39.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) dark green (d) maroon

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