Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 986 · 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 is lighter: lilac or dark purple? (a) lilac (b) dark purple
2. 2.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a colour lighter? (a) white (b) black
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) dark purple (b) lilac (c) pink (d) light blue
6. 6.True or false: you should add white to blue to make sky blue. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) lilac (c) navy blue (d) light green
8. 8.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
9. 9.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) maroon (b) dark purple (c) pale yellow (d) bottle green
10. 10.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark purple (b) pink (c) maroon (d) bottle green
11. 11.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a tint? (a) white (b) black
12. 12.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make maroon? (a) white (b) black
13. 13.True or false: you should add white to green to make bottle green. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pale yellow (b) bottle green (c) sky blue (d) light blue
16. 16.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: you should add black to green to make bottle green. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark purple (c) sky blue (d) light green
19. 19.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
20. 20.True or false: you should add black to red to make pink. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) sky blue (b) navy blue
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) pale yellow (c) dark green (d) light blue
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark purple (b) dark green (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
24. 24.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) shade (b) tone (c) tint
25. 25.True or false: dark purple is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎨 Is pale yellow a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
28. 28.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.True or false: bottle green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) dark green (c) maroon (d) navy blue
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) dark red (c) light blue (d) sky blue
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dark green (b) maroon (c) pink (d) navy blue
34. 34.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) light blue (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) lilac
35. 35.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
36. 36.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) navy blue (b) light blue (c) bottle green (d) maroon
38. 38.True or false: pink is a shade (a colour + black). (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to red to make pink. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make navy blue? (a) white (b) black

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