ART-THEMED crossword
(straight version of puzzle published by Artists & Illustrators magazine, July 2001)

by Eddie James

Across

7Term for gentle gradations of tone in oil painting (7)
918C Italian fresco painter (7)
10In brief, London gallery showing contemporary works (3)
11Major gallery on London's Embankment (4,7)
12Pictures of posers! (9)
14Stylish, agile (5)
16Make an etching (7)
18Architecturally decorative features on pillars, etc. (7)
20Greek island (5)
21Not water-based paint (3,6)
23Red-brown colour (5,6)
25See 13 Down
26A permit – of the artistic kind? (7)
27Deep pink (7)

Down

1Sort of halo (4)
2Highly accomplished artist – and teacher? (6)
318th C. English painter of horses (6)
4One who plans e.g. a product's 'look' (8)
5Spanish master, painter of Third of May, 1808 (4)
6Half of a partnership producing artists' colours and other materials (6)
7Go dotty as a painter! (7)
8A peripheral sort of sketch? (7)
13/25ABloomsbury Group artist/art critic (5,3)
15Portable collection of an artist's works (5)
17An etching with a watercolour appearance (8)
18The potato plant (7)
19An aerosol container (5,3)
20Metallic element and deep blue colour (6)
21Oily yellow-green-brown fruits (6)
22Warm colour (6)
24One sort of paper used for oriental painting (4)
25A typeface set (4)

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