Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 974 · 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: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
2. 2.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
3. 3.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
4. 4.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) pink (c) lilac (d) light blue
5. 5.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
6. 6.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) dark purple
8. 8.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
16. 16.True or false: maroon is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint
18. 18.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
19. 19.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) light green (c) pink (d) navy blue
20. 20.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) lilac (d) navy blue
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) bottle green (c) navy blue (d) light green
23. 23.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) pink (d) navy blue
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) bottle green
26. 26.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
27. 27.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) palette (c) value scale (d) horizon line
29. 29.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark purple (c) pink (d) light green
30. 30.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) black (b) white
32. 32.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) dark red (c) navy blue (d) sky blue
34. 34.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark purple (d) lilac
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) light green
37. 37.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
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) light blue (c) navy blue (d) dark purple
39. 39.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False

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