Tints and Shades Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 6: Tints and shades · Set 99 · 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 the odd one out? (a) sky blue (b) dark red (c) pale yellow (d) lilac
2. 2.🎨 Is pink a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
3. 3.🎨 Which paint should you add to blue to make sky blue? (a) white (b) black
4. 4.🎨 Is navy blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
5. 5.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light green (c) dark purple (d) pink
6. 6.🎨 Is bottle green a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
7. 7.True or false: dark purple is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
8. 8.A row of squares going from white to black is called a… (a) horizon line (b) colour wheel (c) palette (d) value scale
9. 9.🎨 Which paint should you add to make a shade? (a) black (b) white
10. 10.True or false: you should add white to make a shade. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: dark green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: you should add black to blue to make navy blue. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🎨 Which paint should you add to red to make pink? (a) black (b) white
14. 14.🎨 Is light blue a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) pink (b) dark green (c) light green (d) pale yellow
16. 16.🎨 Is light green a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
17. 17.True or false: you should add black to make a tint. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: light blue is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which is lighter: pink or maroon? (a) pink (b) maroon
20. 20.True or false: you should add white to make a colour lighter. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.Which of these is a shade (a colour + black)? (a) lilac (b) light blue (c) dark red (d) pale yellow
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) lilac (b) maroon (c) dark purple (d) dark red
23. 23.🎨 Is dark purple a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
24. 24.Which is darker: light green or bottle green? (a) bottle green (b) light green
25. 25.Adding grey to a colour makes a… (a) tint (b) tone (c) shade
26. 26.🎨 Is dark red a tint or a shade? (a) a shade (b) a tint
27. 27.True or false: you should add black to make a colour lighter. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎨 Is sky blue a tint or a shade? (a) a tint (b) a shade
29. 29.True or false: light green is a tint (a colour + white). (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: light green is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: you should add black to make a colour darker. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎨 Which paint should you add to green to make bottle green? (a) white (b) black
33. 33.True or false: maroon is a tint (a colour + white). (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) light green (b) maroon (c) dark red (d) dark green
35. 35.Which of these is a tint (a colour + white)? (a) dark red (b) bottle green (c) light green (d) dark purple
36. 36.🎨 Which paint should you add to purple to make lilac? (a) black (b) white
37. 37.Which is darker: sky blue or navy blue? (a) navy blue (b) sky blue
38. 38.True or false: sky blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: you should add white to red to make maroon. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: navy blue is a shade (a colour + black). (a) False (b) True

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