ADJ
- acrylic, oil, watercolour
- finger
- miniature
- abstract, decorative, figurative, genre, landscape, life, portrait, still-life, surrealist
VERB + PAINTING
- do
- I'll do some painting this afternoon
- take up
- When she retired she took up painting
PHRASES
- painting and decorating
- The firm specializes in painting and decorating
ADJ
- fine, good, great
- famous, well-known
- valuable
- original
- The design is based on an original painting by Matisse
- miniature
- Cubist, Impressionist, Old Master, etc.
- avant-garde
- abstract, figurative, figure, genre, landscape, life, nude, still-life, surrealist
- ceiling, fresco, wall
- acrylic, gouache, oil, watercolour
QUANT
- series
- collection, exhibition
VERB + PAINTING
- do, execute, paint, work on
- Degas did several paintings of ballet dancers
- frame
- hang, put up
- display, exhibit, show
- collect
- She collects paintings by nineteenth-century Australian artists
- clean, conserve, restore
- copy, reproduce
PAINTING + VERB
- depict sb/sth, portray sb/sth, show sb/sth
- hang
- His most famous paintings hang in the Tate Gallery
PREP
- in a/the ~
- The woman in the painting is the artist's mistress
- ~ by
- a painting by Gauguin
- ~ in
- a fine painting in oils
- ~ of
- paintings of flowers