1. paint
painting nails
My grandfather had completed the wood work and my grandmother finished the piece with paint.
To paint a bird, start by painting a cage with an open door.
Did you know that if you mixed red and blue paint you obtained purple?
If you paint it yellow, you'll kill two birds with one stone: it'll stand out, and you'll save money because you can use paint you already have.
So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.
He was a pitiable spectacle of neglect and wretchedness as he sat there on an upturned pail, eating his bread and cheese with fingers that, like his clothing, were grimed with paint and dirt.
If I could draw well, I would paint pictures in "Where is Waldo?"-style, but leave out Waldo.
Oil on canvas can never paint a petal so delicate.
We should lay on a second coat of paint for better protection against the weather.
You have to paint the whole house all by yourself? You sure have your work cut out for you.
Picasso painted Guernica in 1937.
We found paint chips under her fingernails.
a coloured liquid that you put on a surface to change its colour or that you use for making a picture. a set of small blocks or tubes containing paint of different colours that you use for making pictures
These pictures were all painted by local artists. We've painted the kitchen yellow.
2. painting
I like to do oil painting, but I don't intend to make that my lifelong occupation.
In preparation for painting a portrait, my friend takes many photographs in order to study the subject closely.
Tom has finished painting the picture of Mary that he's been working on for a couple of months.
We can get a glimpse of the lifestyle of ancient people from this wall painting.
As a prank, some students let three goats loose inside their school after painting the numbers 1, 2 and 4 on the sides of the goats. The teachers spent most of the day looking for goat number 3.
David has a keen interest in aesthetics — the qualities that make a painting, sculpture, musical composition, or poem pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind.
I like painting.
The lack of harmony between colors makes this painting stand out.
Lemme see your painting, Manaka. "Must you? It's embarrassing!"
When it is appraised, in order to check the authenticity and state of preservation of the painting, the real thing has to be borrowed from its owner.
Grandma Moses started painting when she was in her seventies. A late bloomer indeed!
I don't know much about painting, but I can tell that this brush has an excellent stroke feel to it.
Mr Yoshida was born in Yamagata prefecture, and graduated from Nihon University College of Art with a degree in oil painting.
When I reached the hall right away the person in charge unrelentingly said things like "This painting is certain to increase in value in the future," and I went and signed the contract.
This is a copy of a photo of a painting. I guess that makes it a third level simulacrum.