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painting

painting

263 1.2
The activity of making pictures with paint
  • noun
  • /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/
translation icon : pintura
  • Her painting of the sunset captured the vibrant colors of the evening sky.
  • oil painting
  • landscape painting
  • abstract painting

What I don't love is painting myself in green.

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Examples

  • Some hobbies that I love doing is painting or coloring or drawing.

  • It's about an attitude to painting from live models.

  • I made you a painting.

  • I'll be in my room painting.

  • Tell Amy that I loved her painting.

  • When people say painting is dead, they're exactly right.

  • -I started another painting for Cleve.

  • -I love this painting.

  • The artist spent hours in the studio, passionately working on her latest painting.

  • He decided to sell his painting at the local art fair, hoping someone would appreciate his work.

Compounds

6 2.7

A picture made with oil paint on canvas or panel

The act of putting paint on a surface using a spray can or gun

oil painting
  • Specialized
3 2.9

Art of making pictures using oil-based paint

A picture made directly on a wall as decoration

A picture that shows natural scenery like hills, trees, and rivers

Work that covers the inside or outside of a house with color to protect and decorate it

1 7.2

A picture made by arranging fine colored sand on a flat surface

A style of abstract art in which artists drip or pour paint onto a canvas

action painting
  • Specialized
1 7.1

A style of abstract painting where the artist moves and applies paint in big, energetic movements

1 5.3

A painting that shows a naked person as the main subject

A painting made with bright, strong colors that looks lively

A way of painting using fingers to spread paint or a picture done that way

A kind of art that shows ordinary people doing everyday activities

oil painting
  • Neologism
3.5

A digital image made by software to look like a picture painted with oil paint

An activity of decorating small stones with color as a craft

A decorative painting that hangs above a sofa to match the room

word-painting
  • Literature
7.4

A description in words that makes you imagine something clearly

How Finished

masterpiece
156 3.8
painting
263 1.2
study
28 5.8
sketch
150 2.5
to doodle
13 3.3

Surface Forms

painting singular
paintings plural

Morphology

painting = paint (transparent) = paint + ing

The noun 'painting' is clearly derived from the verb 'paint' with the addition of the suffix '-ing', indicating the activity or art form.

Etymology

Painting comes from the verb paint, which originally meant 'to put colour on something' and is the same root as painter. So painting is the activity or art of making pictures by putting paint on a surface.