| painting | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. painting, picture | graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface.; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre" |
| ~ abstraction | an abstract painting. |
| ~ cityscape | painting depicting a city or urban area. |
| ~ daub | an unskillful painting. |
| ~ distemper | a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder. |
| ~ finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers. |
| ~ graphic art | the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking. |
| ~ ikon, icon | a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church. |
| ~ landscape | painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery. |
| ~ miniature, illumination | painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts). |
| ~ monochrome | painting done in a range of tones of a single color. |
| ~ mural, wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface. |
| ~ nude, nude painting | a painting of a naked human figure. |
| ~ oil painting | a picture painted with oil paints. |
| ~ pentimento | the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age). |
| ~ sand painting | a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background. |
| ~ waterscape, seascape | a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape). |
| ~ semi-abstraction | a semiabstract painting. |
| ~ still life | a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers. |
| ~ tanka | a Tibetan religious painting on fabric. |
| ~ trompe l'oeil | a painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality. |
| ~ watercolor, water-color, water-colour, watercolour | a painting produced with watercolors. |
| n. (act) | 2. painting | creating a picture with paints.; "he studied painting and sculpture for many years" |
| ~ artistic creation, artistic production, art | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ distemper | a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery. |
| ~ fresco | a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster. |
| ~ impasto | painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible. |
| ~ oil painting | the art or method of painting with oil paints. |
| ~ water-color, water-colour, watercolor, watercolour | the art or technique of painting with watercolors. |
| ~ beaux arts, fine arts | the study and creation of visual works of art. |
| n. (act) | 3. painting | the act of applying paint to a surface.; "you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush" |
| ~ application, coating, covering | the work of applying something.; "the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine"; "a complete bleach requires several applications"; "the surface was ready for a coating of paint" |
| ~ spray painting | applying paint with a sprayer. |
| ~ splashing, spatter, spattering, splattering, splash | the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface. |
| ~ finger-painting | painting by using the fingers to spread the paint. |
| n. (act) | 4. house painting, painting | the occupation of a house painter.; "house painting was the only craft he knew" |
| ~ craft, trade | the skilled practice of a practical occupation.; "he learned his trade as an apprentice" |
| ~ building, construction | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones.; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades" |
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