The arts - Drawing and painting Flashcards

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dessiner
un dessin
une planche à dessin

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to draw
a drawing
a drawing board

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un dessinateur

une dessinatrice

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a draughtsman

a draughtswoman

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un crayon

un coup de crayon

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a pencil

a pencil stroke

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la craie

la craie grasse

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chalk

crayon (faux ami)

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une esquisse, un croquis

un carnet de croquis

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a sketch (faux-ami)
a sketchbook
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le fusain

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charcoal

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peindre
la peinture (matériau)
la peinture (activité)
un tableau
un peintre
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to paint
paint
painting
a painting
a painter
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la gouache

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gouache

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un pinceau

un coup de pinceau

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a brush

a brushstroke

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une palette

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a palette

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l’aquarelle (=peinture à l’eau)

une aquarelle

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watercorlour (UK) = watercolor (US)

a watercolour

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la toile
une toile (à peindre)
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canvas

a canvas

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an easel

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un chevalet

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recouvrir (de peinture)

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to daub (with paint)

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15
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la peinture acrylique

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acrylic paint

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un camaïeu ( = une seule couleur)

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a monochrome

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une peinture murale

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a mural

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une fresque

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a fresco

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un trompe-l’oeil

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a trompe l’oeil

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un dessin humoristique

un dessinateur humoristique

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a cartoon

a cartoonist

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une caricature

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a caricature

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un dessin à main levée

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a freehand drawing

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un dessin au fusain

un dessin au crayon

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a charcoal drawing

a pencil drawing

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un dessin à la plume

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a pen-and-ink drawing

25
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dessiner bien

dessiner mal

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to be a good draughtsman (woman)

to be a bad draughtsman (woman)

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un fusain

une craie

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a piece of charcoal

a piece of chalk

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une ébauche

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a rough sketch

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un tube de peinture

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a tube of paint

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une boite de couleurs

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a paint box

30
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une peinture à l’huile (tableau)

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an oil painting

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un tableau grandeur nature

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a life-size painting

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une Vierge à l’enfant

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a Madonna with child

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estomper une couleur

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to shade off a colour

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dessiner d’après nature

peindre d’après nature

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to draw from life

to paint from life