Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 985 · 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.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
2. 2.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) sky blue (b) pale yellow (c) lilac (d) bottle green
4. 4.True or false: you should add black to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: you should add black to purple to make lilac. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
7. 7.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) white (b) black
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
11. 11.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) maroon (b) pink
13. 13.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
14. 14.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) dark purple (d) sky blue
16. 16.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) palette (b) horizon line (c) colour wheel (d) value scale
17. 17.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
18. 18.When mixing a tint, what should you add to what? (a) black to colour (b) water to black (c) a little colour to white (d) white to black
19. 19.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
20. 20.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎨 Is maroon a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light blue (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) dark red
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) dark green (c) dark purple (d) light green
25. 25.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) pale yellow (b) dark purple (c) maroon (d) bottle green
26. 26.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) dark red (c) pale yellow (d) light green
27. 27.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) pink (b) light green (c) light blue (d) maroon
28. 28.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tint (c) tone
29. 29.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) black (b) white
30. 30.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bottle green (b) dark red (c) maroon (d) lilac
32. 32.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark green (b) pale yellow (c) light green (d) sky blue
33. 33.True or false: you should add black to red to make maroon. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: you should add white to make a tint. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: you should add black to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) dark purple (b) lilac
37. 37.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
38. 38.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) bottle green (b) navy blue (c) dark purple (d) light green
39. 39.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
40. 40.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True

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