Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 955 · 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: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
5. 5.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) light green (c) maroon (d) dark red
7. 7.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: pale yellow is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) dark red (d) pink
10. 10.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) bottle green
12. 12.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) lilac
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
16. 16.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) white to black (c) a little colour to white (d) black to colour
17. 17.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) shade (c) tone
19. 19.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) light green
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) light green (c) pale yellow (d) light blue
23. 23.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
24. 24.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
26. 26.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
27. 27.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
28. 28.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
32. 32.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) palette (c) horizon line (d) colour wheel
34. 34.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) navy blue (c) dark red (d) pink
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade

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