ADJ
- attractive, beautiful, lovely, striking, stunning, wonderful
- blurred
- black and white, colour
- posed
VERB + PICTURE
- draw, paint
- colour in
- The book has simple stories and pictures to colour in
- frame, hang, mount
- display, exhibit, show
- pose for, sit for
- get, snap, take
- I got some good pictures of the procession
- touch up
PICTURE + NOUN
- frame
- book, postcard
- gallery
- hook, rail
- editor
PREP
- in a/the ~
- I can't see you in the picture. The story is told in pictures
- ~ of
- It's a picture of a country village
ADJ
- vivid
- The book gives a vivid picture of life in Victorian England
- clear
- complete, comprehensive, full, general, overall, total, whole
- The programme was interesting but it didn't give the full picture
- incomplete
- broad
- My visits enabled me to build up a broad picture of the culture
- composite
- Through interviews and old photos we put together a composite picture of life in the village a hundred years ago
- accurate, balanced, realistic, representative, true
- false, misleading, one-sided, over-simplified, unbalanced
- idealized, optimistic, rosy
- bleak, depressing, dismal, gloomy, grim, negative
- The report paints a dismal picture of the government's economic record
- confused, distorted
- detailed
- complex, complicated
- disturbing
- mental
- I tried to form a mental picture of the building being described
- historical
VERB + PICTURE
- build (up), construct, create, develop, establish, form, gain, get, obtain, put together
- They're trying to build up a detailed picture of the incident
- give, paint, present, project, reveal
- The figures reveal a disturbing picture of the state of our schools
- complete
- conjure up
- The smell of the sea conjures up pictures of children playing on the beach
PICTURE + VERB
- emerge
- What emerges is a complex picture of family rivalry