| DABS | Paint quantities on a palette |
| DUCKWEED | A tiny aquatic flowering plant that floats in large quantities on still water (8) |
| YEARLY | Nobleman investing in variable quantities on an annual basis |
| DOSES | Quantities on doctors' prescriptions |
| OILPAINT | Cadmium yellow, rose madder, scarlet lake, viridian or other pigment suspended in a linseed- or poppy-based medium for mixing on a palette and applying to a canvas (3,5) |
| 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) |
| OILS | Globs on a palette |
| HUE | Choice on a palette |
| PAINT | Blob on a palette |
| OCHRE | One of a palette's palette |
| 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 |
| EASEL | Prop found near a palette |
| ARTIST | One with a palette |
| OVAL | Like many a palette |
| THUMBHOLE | Place to grip a palette |
| EYESHADOW | Makeup pigment that often comes in a palette |
| MSPAINT | Built-in Windows application with a palette logo, familiarly |
| MONET | Artist who created paintings of his garden and water lilies in Giverny with a palette that included cobalt violet, French ultramarine, rose madder lake and viridian (5) |
| ECRU | Unbleached linen colour sometimes forming part of a neutrals palette on a paint swatch (4) |
