Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 961 · 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 of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) pale yellow (c) bottle green (d) dark green
2. 2.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.True or false: you should add white to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) light green
6. 6.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
10. 10.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
11. 11.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) bottle green (b) light blue (c) pale yellow (d) sky blue
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) lilac (d) dark purple
13. 13.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) light blue (d) navy blue
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark red (c) dark green (d) bottle green
15. 15.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) white to black (b) black to colour (c) a little colour to white (d) water to black
16. 16.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
17. 17.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
18. 18.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
20. 20.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
22. 22.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) pink (c) pale yellow (d) light blue
23. 23.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) sky blue (c) dark green (d) dark red
25. 25.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) dark green (c) pink (d) lilac
26. 26.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
31. 31.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
32. 32.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark purple (c) dark red (d) sky blue
36. 36.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white

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