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  • nounwork of art
  • nounthe act of applying paint
  • nounartwork

synonyms for painting

  • art
  • canvas
  • composition
  • depiction
  • landscape
  • mural
  • oil painting
  • picture
  • portrait
  • sketch
  • cityscape
  • likeness
  • portrayal
  • representation
  • seascape
  • abstract design
  • art work
  • water color
  • airbrushing
  • brushing
  • calcimining
  • coating
  • covering
  • decorating
  • enameling
  • splashing
  • varnishing
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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to painting, such as: art, canvas, composition, depiction, landscape, and mural.

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Inside, the houses were richly decorated with paintings, as well as sculptures of animals that burst out of the walls.
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There’s nothing unusual about Jean Jensen selling up to 30 pastel, watercolor or oil paintings a year.
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Jim specialized in painting houses, and house painting was in my DNA.
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When I paint just for paintings, I don’t have to worry about polys.
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On the other hand, here is an example of a very high-poly painting using Google Tilt Brush.
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She did her work at a most interesting period in Dutch painting.
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This led to her painting portraits of various members of the royal family while she was still a pupil of De Zichys.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
In 1884 she once more yielded to the attraction that Paris had for her, and there made a great advance in her painting.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
A girl of forty-two weeks showed the same excitement at the sight of a life-size painting of a cat as at that of a real cat.
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The prophets had long been painting the visionary dawn with pigments of that glorious sunset.
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WORDS RELATED TO PAINTING

  • abstraction
  • carving
  • description
  • design
  • illustration
  • imitation
  • modeling
  • molding
  • painting
  • pictorialization
  • portrayal
  • representation
  • sculpting
  • shaping
  • simulation
  • symbolization
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.