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painting

painting

131 1.2
The activity of making pictures with paint
  • noun
  • /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/
: 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

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

oil painting
  • Specialized
3 2.9

Art of making pictures using oil-based paint

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

A picture made directly on a wall as decoration

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

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

1 5.3

A painting that shows a naked person as the main subject

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

A kind of art that shows ordinary people doing everyday activities

word-painting
  • Literature
1 7.4

A description in words that makes you imagine something clearly

An activity of decorating small stones with color as a craft

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

A painting made with bright, strong colors that looks lively

oil painting
  • Neologism
3.5

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

How Finished

masterpiece
147 3.8
painting
131 1.2
study
18 5.8
sketch
222 2.5
to doodle
18 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.