Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 941 · 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.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
6. 6.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) light blue
7. 7.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light blue (c) dark green (d) pink
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) light green (d) dark red
9. 9.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) light green
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) water to black (c) black to colour (d) white to black
18. 18.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
20. 20.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) light blue (b) dark purple (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
22. 22.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) lilac (d) navy blue
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
26. 26.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
28. 28.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) pink
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pink (c) dark green (d) light blue
31. 31.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) pink (d) pale yellow
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) sky blue
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) dark green (d) navy blue
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) maroon (d) pink
37. 37.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
38. 38.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) navy blue (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow

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