Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 964 · 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 is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
2. 2.True or false: pale yellow is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
5. 5.True or false: pink is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
8. 8.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark red (b) lilac (c) pale yellow (d) light green
10. 10.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) light green (c) bottle green (d) dark red
14. 14.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) pale yellow
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) navy blue (d) pink
16. 16.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
18. 18.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
19. 19.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) bottle green (d) navy blue
20. 20.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
21. 21.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) dark green (c) light green (d) bottle green
22. 22.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
24. 24.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
26. 26.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
27. 27.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) pink (d) pale yellow
28. 28.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) black to colour (c) a little colour to white (d) white to black
31. 31.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) value scale (c) horizon line (d) palette
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
33. 33.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
34. 34.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) light blue (c) navy blue (d) dark red
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
37. 37.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) pink (c) light green (d) dark green
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) lilac (d) dark green
39. 39.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True

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