Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 910 · 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 lighter? (a) white (b) black
2. 2.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) light green (d) dark green
6. 6.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) navy blue (c) pale yellow (d) light green
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) light green
14. 14.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
15. 15.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
18. 18.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) bottle green
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) light blue
20. 20.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) pink (c) maroon (d) dark red
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
22. 22.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) pink (c) pale yellow (d) light blue
27. 27.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
28. 28.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) light blue
30. 30.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
31. 31.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) dark purple
36. 36.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) colour wheel (c) horizon line (d) value scale
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) dark red (c) lilac (d) light green
39. 39.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink

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