Tints and Shades Worksheet

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

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