Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 972 · 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) maroon (b) pink (c) dark red (d) navy blue
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) light green (c) pink (d) maroon
3. 3.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
4. 4.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
8. 8.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) light blue (d) bottle green
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) sky blue (d) lilac
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) bottle green
13. 13.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
15. 15.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
17. 17.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
18. 18.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
19. 19.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
24. 24.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark green (c) light blue (d) lilac
27. 27.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
28. 28.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
29. 29.True or false: you should add white to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
31. 31.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
33. 33.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) navy blue (c) maroon (d) light green
34. 34.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) pink (d) lilac
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) black (b) white
39. 39.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white

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