Painting & Sculpture Crossword Puzzles: Free Printable and Online

Challenge your art knowledge with our engaging Painting & Sculpture crossword puzzles. Solve clues about famous artists, masterpieces, and movements.

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Painting & Sculpture

Hard · 15×15 · 19 words
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  1. 1. Laying it on thick for a textured finish
  2. 3. White-wash start for a smooth wooden panel
  3. 7. A heavy fabric used to solicit votes or support art
  4. 10. An egg-cellent choice for a Renaissance binder
  5. 12. Hand roller used to spread ink, not a noisy donkey
  6. 13. Drawing on stone where oil and water disagree
  7. 17. Sooty pigment that creates a brown study
  8. 18. Flaxen output that makes oil paint flow
  9. 19. Sprayed on to keep charcoal from wandering

Down

  1. 2. Grand design that takes up the entire wall
  2. 4. Paper tool for smudging that might leave you confused
  3. 5. Ground glass that makes a kiln-fired scene
  4. 6. Warts-and-all approach to Roman portraiture
  5. 8. The green hue of aging copper
  6. 9. Metalwork technique that pushes its luck from the back
  7. 11. Fired up about working with hot wax
  8. 14. A Calder creation that refuses to move
  9. 15. A colorful board meeting for a painter
  10. 16. Covering the lily or the frame with gold

Painting & Sculpture

Medium · 11×11 · 11 words
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  1. 2. Creating an image using nothing but tiny dots
  2. 6. White primer applied to prepare a surface for paint
  3. 7. Visual trickery used to deceive the eye into seeing 3D
  4. 8. Burnt wood used for sketchy preliminary studies
  5. 10. Metamorphic rock that Michelangelo saw figures inside
  6. 11. Art that does not attempt to represent external reality

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  1. 1. Baked earth used for ancient warriors and pottery
  2. 3. Pigment mixed with egg yolk used before oil took over
  3. 4. Style of painting done outside in the natural light
  4. 5. A wooden tripod that supports a creative vision
  5. 9. Artistic technique that involves painting on wet plaster

Painting & Sculpture

Easy · 7×7 · 7 words
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  1. 2. A wooden stand used to hold a canvas while an artist works
  2. 5. A hard stone often carved to create smooth white sculptures
  3. 7. A metal tool used by sculptors to carve stone or wood

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  1. 1. A decorative border that goes around the edges of a picture
  2. 3. A type of life painting featuring inanimate objects like fruit
  3. 4. A tool with bristles used to apply pigment to a surface
  4. 6. A type of slow-drying paint used by many classic masters

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