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Element of Art: Color

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the three primary colors?

a)

Red, Orange, Blue

b)

Green, Purple, Orange

c)

Blue, Yellow, Red

d)

Green, Yellow, Red

2.

What is an analogous color scheme?

a)

Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel

b)

Colors that are side-by-side on the color wheel

c)

One color and it's tints and shades

d)

Any combination of colors the artist chooses

3.

What does color intensity mean?

a)

How bright or dull a color is

b)

How light or dark a color is

c)

The name of a color

d)

The neon quality of a color

4.

What is value?

a)

How much a painting is worth

b)

The brightness or dullness of a color

c)

The lightness or darkness of a color

5.

What is an example of a complementary color pair?

a)

Red and Orange

b)

Blue and Green

c)

Red and Blue

d)

Blue and Orange

6.

What do you mix with a color to make a tint of that color?

a)

Black

b)

Brown

c)

White

7.

What do you mix with a color to make a shade of the color?

a)

Black

b)

Brown

c)

White

8.

What is the definition of color?

a)

Rainbow

b)

What the eye sees when light reflects off an object

c)

the paint on a painting

d)

Darkness or Brightness

9.

What are the warm colors?

a)

red, yellow, orange

b)

blue, purple, green

c)

red, purple, red-violet

d)

orange, green blue

10.

What are the cool colors?

a)

blue, purple, yellow

b)

blue, green, purple

c)

purple, red, red-violet

d)

red, orange, yellow

11.

Which is not a tint of blue?

a)

Dark Blue

b)

Light Blue

c)

Baby Blue

d)

Sky Blue

12.

Which is not a warm color?

a)

red

b)

blue

c)

yellow

d)

orange

13.

Which is a shade of red?

a)

Pink

b)

red

c)

maroon

d)

red-violet

14.

which is a tint of red?

a)

red

b)

red-violet

c)

maroon

d)

pink

15.

What color scheme is this painting considered to have?

a)

Analogous (side-by-side colors)

b)

Monochromatic (one color and it's tints and shades)

c)

Complementary (opposite colors on the color wheel)

16.

What is a tone of a color?

a)

A color mixed with white and black

b)

A color mixed with it's complement

c)

How loud a color is

17.

What colors portray a sense of warmth in a painting?

a)

Blues, Greens, Purples

b)

Complementary colors

c)

Oranges, Yellows, Reds

18.

What is the color Red's complement?

a)

Green

b)

Blue

c)

Yellow

d)

Purple

19.

What is the color Purple's Complement?

a)

Red

b)

Blue

c)

Yellow

d)

Green

20.

What color is made by mixing yellow and blue?

a)

Orange

b)

Purple

c)

Red

d)

Green

21.

What color is made by mixing red and blue?

a)

Orange

b)

Purple

c)

Green

d)

Yellow

22.

How do you make a secondary color?

a)

By mixing a primary color with a secondary color

b)

By mixing two primary colors

c)

By mixing any two colors

23.

How do you make a tertiary color like red-orange?

a)

By mixing any two colors together

b)

By mixing two primary colors

c)

By mixing a primary color with a neighboring secondary color

24.

What are some examples of neutral colors (colors not on the color wheel or in the color spectrum)?

a)

Red, Black, White

b)

Gray, silver, lavender

c)

Black, White, Gray, Brown

25.

What are the three secondary colors?

a)

Red, Blue, Yellow

b)

Green, Orange, Yellow

c)

Red, Red-orange, Orange

d)

Orange, Green, Purple