Learn the French painting vocabulary as a list of French painting terms with English translation. Don’t hesitate to suggest new words please!
French Painting Vocabulary
- A painting: une peinture (sometimes “un tableau”, mostly when it’s framed)
- To paint: peindre
- A painter: un/une peintre
- Art : l’art (t silent in French)
- An artist : un/une artiste
- Watercolor : l’aquarelle (note it’s singular in French)
- Watercolor pocket set : du matériel d’aquarelle de poche
- Poster paint, gouache: la gouache (pronounce it gwash)
- Oil paint : la peinture à l’huile
- Acrylic paint : l’acrylique
- Une palette : palette
- Un gobelet : water cup
- Un chevalet : easel
- A canvas : une toile
- A sketch : un croquis, une esquisse, une ébauche
- A Sketchbook : un carnet de croquis
- Paper : du papier
- A pencil : un crayon à papier
- Color pencils (prismacolor) : des crayons de couleurs
- A crayon: un pastel (watch out “a crayon” as in crayola sticks is called “un pastel”. “Un crayon” in French is “a pencil”)
- A fountain pen: un stylo
- Charcoal : un fusain
- A brush : un pinceau
Don’t hesitate to suggest more French painting terms in the Disqus comment section below (French + English translation please) and I’ll add them to the list. Merci !
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