painting
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canvas (also canvass), oil, oil painting
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To create your own shifting-palette look at home, simply choose your five (or 10) polishes and get painting. — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, "Gradient Nails Are the Prettiest New Manicure Trend for Spring," 15 Mar. 2019 Menchie’s opens in Valley Ranch Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt held a grand opening for its new location in Valley Ranch on June 30, where the franchise offered free T-shirts and face painting. — Kaila Contreras, Houston Chronicle, "Roundups: German hotdog eatery Wienerschnitzel plans first Houston area restaurant in New Caney," 6 July 2018 Smack in the middle of what looks like a naturalistic painting is a three-headed monster. — Sharmila Mukherjee, The Seattle Times, "SAM’s ‘Peacock in the Desert’ opens the doors of our perception to the marvelous," 2 Jan. 2019 The 10 paintings with explanatory wall labels would be, to my mind, perfectly self-sufficient without them. — Peter Plagens, WSJ, "‘Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes’ Review: A Pro in Need of Poetry," 18 Dec. 2018 The paintings, and their almost psychedelic palette, are as fleshlike and physical as O’Keeffe’s New Mexican work is stripped and metaphysical. — New York Times, "23 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend," 12 July 2018 In the living room, a mustard-yellow sofa pulls from details in a Selena Beaudry painting; in the family room, a lavender ceiling contrasts with a bright chartreuse ostrich-egg installation. — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, "This Beach House Features the Most Surprisingly Awesome Color Combinations," 4 Mar. 2019 My father, meantime, became an editor at the Saturday Evening Post in the days after World War II, when America was able to imagine itself as a Norman Rockwell painting. — Lance Morrow, WSJ, "America Is Torn Between Trump’s Fibs and Progressives’ Fantasies," 15 Feb. 2019 In that same podcast, Majlak explains that Paul once dropped a priceless painting that almost cost Majlak his job. — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, "Meet the babysitter who helps Logan Paul stay out of trouble on YouTube," 3 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'painting.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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The first known use of painting was in the 13th century
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