Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 976 · 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 shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) dark purple (d) lilac
2. 2.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
3. 3.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) pink
5. 5.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
7. 7.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
8. 8.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) value scale (b) palette (c) colour wheel (d) horizon line
9. 9.True or false: sky blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: dark red is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
13. 13.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
14. 14.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) bottle green (c) dark red (d) pink
15. 15.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
16. 16.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) dark green (c) pale yellow (d) maroon
17. 17.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
18. 18.True or false: dark red is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎨 Is lilac a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
20. 20.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) light green (c) dark red (d) light blue
22. 22.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) lilac (c) light green (d) dark green
26. 26.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) a little colour to white (b) black to colour (c) white to black (d) water to black
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) white (b) black
31. 31.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) maroon (d) light blue
33. 33.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
35. 35.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
36. 36.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) pink (d) navy blue
37. 37.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) maroon (b) sky blue (c) dark purple (d) navy blue

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