Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 953 · 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 tint? (a) white (b) black
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) lilac (c) sky blue (d) dark purple
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) navy blue (b) light green (c) lilac (d) light blue
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
7. 7.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: navy blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
13. 13.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) horizon line (c) palette (d) value scale
15. 15.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
16. 16.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) lilac
17. 17.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) navy blue (c) lilac (d) bottle green
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) bottle green (c) light blue (d) maroon
21. 21.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
22. 22.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
24. 24.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
25. 25.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
27. 27.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) a little colour to white (c) water to black (d) white to black
28. 28.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) lilac
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) dark red
31. 31.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) lilac (d) light green
34. 34.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
36. 36.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) sky blue (d) light blue
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) pink (c) dark purple (d) lilac
39. 39.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
40. 40.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink

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