Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 950 · 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: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
3. 3.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
4. 4.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
5. 5.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) lilac
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) light green
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.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
13. 13.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pink (c) bottle green (d) light blue
14. 14.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
16. 16.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue (c) bottle green (d) dark green
17. 17.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) sky blue (c) lilac (d) dark red
20. 20.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) maroon (c) light green (d) dark red
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark green (c) pink (d) pale yellow
24. 24.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
25. 25.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) maroon
32. 32.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark green (c) pink (d) dark purple
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
35. 35.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
37. 37.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark purple (b) sky blue (c) light green (d) lilac
38. 38.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) value scale (d) palette
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) maroon

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