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  • present participle of paint.
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painting

[peyn-ting] / ˈpeɪn tɪŋ /




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As for the San Juan Hill painting, it connects neatly with the history of Theodore Roosevelt, one of nine presidents who have visited the inn.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The Keith painting is “quintessential California, a romanticized view of the Sierra Nevada range. William Keith, the painter, was friends with John Muir,” Falcone said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

He painted The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, which still hangs in St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, and is the only painting Caravaggio ever signed.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

Kim’s thin outlines and gentle washes clearly bear the influence of nihonga, the stylized, modern version of classical Japanese painting that he studied in Tokyo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

We work like that until the sky goes orange, just painting and cutting and measuring and chatting.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz




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