Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 983 · 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 red (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) bottle green
2. 2.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
5. 5.True or false: light blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark purple (c) light green (d) maroon
7. 7.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🎨 Is dark green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) light blue (c) light green (d) maroon
10. 10.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) black (b) white
12. 12.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pale yellow (b) light green (c) lilac (d) bottle green
13. 13.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
15. 15.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) water to black (b) white to black (c) a little colour to white (d) black to colour
16. 16.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) colour wheel (b) value scale (c) palette (d) horizon line
17. 17.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark green (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) maroon
18. 18.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light green (b) pink (c) dark red (d) lilac
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) pink (c) light green (d) lilac
20. 20.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
21. 21.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour darker? (a) black (b) white
22. 22.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
23. 23.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
24. 24.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
26. 26.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: dark green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
31. 31.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
32. 32.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) light green (b) bottle green
33. 33.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) pink (d) maroon
37. 37.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) dark green
39. 39.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) sky blue (c) light blue (d) dark red

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