| OILCOLOUR | Artists' paint mixed on a palette to create a vast spectrum or rainbow of hues, shades and tints including cerulean, chartreuse, eau de Nil, lemon, mauve, teal, turquoise and violet (3,6) |
| UNDERCOAT | Paint mixed on a crude table top (9) |
| COLOURS | Hues, shades |
| VIOLET | One of the seven colours of a visible spectrum or rainbow (6) |
| OILS | Artist's paints mixed on palettes (4) |
| BLUE | One of the seven colours in a spectrum or rainbow (4) |
| PAINT | Artist's pigment mixed on a palette in colours such as burnt umber, yellow ochre or vermilion (5) |
| HEWS | Cuts and tints, we're told (4) |
| PLATELET | Varied palette to include large item in vessel (8) |
| HUES | Tones and tints |
| EPAULETTES | Use palette to disguise uniform tags (10) |
| OILPAINT | An artist's slow-drying medium often mixed on a palette (3,5) |
| BATIK | Wax-and-tint art form |
| IMPASTO | Mastered by Rembrandt, a technique of applying oil paints thickly with a brush or a palette knife to achieve a surface texture in relief on a canvas or panel (7) |
| PAINTEDLADY | Name, with an onus on multicolouredness, as if brushed or dipped in a palette of pigments, for a thistle butterfly, a tattooed woman, a scarlet "prairie-fire" American wildflower or a variegated gladi |
| ALICEMUNRO | Canadian short-story writer whose works include Dance of the Happy Shades and The Love of a Good Woman (5,5) |
| PRISM | A transparent polygonal solid for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting and deviating light (5) |
| COLOURWAYS | Word for the schemes of hues or tints in which patterned clothes, fabrics or wallpapers are available (10) |
| DABS | Paint quantities on a palette |
| PATINA | A paint mixed to give a glossy surface (6) |
