Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 958 · 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.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark purple (b) light green (c) light blue (d) sky blue
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) dark green (d) light blue
5. 5.True or false: bottle green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) dark green
7. 7.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) pale yellow (c) sky blue (d) dark red
9. 9.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
10. 10.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
11. 11.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) sky blue (d) dark red
12. 12.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) sky blue (c) lilac (d) light green
14. 14.True or false: lilac is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pink (c) light green (d) dark purple
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) pale yellow
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
25. 25.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
26. 26.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
27. 27.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light green (c) light blue (d) maroon
30. 30.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) maroon (d) navy blue
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
35. 35.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
36. 36.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
40. 40.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True

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