| UTOPIANS | Milne is out of emulsion paint, painting the idealistic picture perhaps (8) |
| EPOXIED | Touches of emulsion paint over cross that is finally scrubbed and treated with resin (7) |
| TEMPERA | Type of emulsion paint |
| ROMANTIC | In the idealistic sense, Don Quixote is one living in Italy with a short name on reflection (8) |
| CHILE | Gabriela Mistral, a poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945 and was described as "a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world," belonged to this country |
| STARRYEYED | Descriptive of the idealistic astronomer? (6-4) |
| TALKSHOW | Place to plug a picture, perhaps |
| SONOGRAM | First baby picture, perhaps |
| ARTFILMS | Small pictures, perhaps |
| EMAILING | Sending cute cat pictures, perhaps |
| EGLOMISE | Paired with "verre", an ancient method of engraving, gilding or painting the reverse of a sheet of glass to create a soft mirrored effect (8) |
| VIRIDIAN | Teal-coloured pigment consisting of hydrated chromium oxide, as seen in Edouard Manet's painting The Balcony (8) |
| PARTYING | Painting the town red for group in Government (8) |
| BYFIRING | Goya's painting The Third of May shows an execution .. ...... squad (2,6) |
| GLEANERS | Which painting ("The ___") by John Francois Millet shows women gathering leftover grain after a harvest? (8) |
| PNEUMONIA | Use emulsion paint - perhaps list out complaints of lung infection (9) |
| RAGTRADE | Artist great at painting the fashion business (3,5) |
| OLIVEOIL | Love, as it happens, painting the press produces? |
| HANDCART | Both taps used, painting the barrow (4-4) |
| PISSARRO | Camille ?, artist whose works include 1882 painting The Little Country Maid |