INDEX:
1. to paint pictures
2. someone who paints pictures
3. to paint walls/doors/rooms etc
4. someone who paints walls, houses etc as their job
5. words for describing something that has been painted
RELATED WORDS
see also
↑ DRAW
↑ PICTURE
↑ COLOUR
↑ PATTERN
↑ DECORATE
↑ ART/CULTURE
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1. to paint pictures
▷ paint /peɪnt/ [intransitive/transitive verb]
to make a picture of someone or something, by putting paint on a surface with a brush :
▪ Geraint was sitting on the beach, painting the seagulls and the fishing boats.
▪ The exhibition focuses on the urban pictures painted by Camille Pissarro in the last decade of his career.
paint a picture (of)
▪ I’m going to paint a picture of the church.
paint in oils/watercolours etc
▪ The pictures in Paul Gunn’s exhibition were all landscapes, most beautifully painted in oils.
painting [uncountable noun]
the activity of painting pictures :
▪ I’m not very good at painting.
▪ a painting class
2. someone who paints pictures
▷ painter /ˈpeɪntəʳ/ [countable noun]
someone who paints pictures :
▪ This is by the great Spanish painter, Goya.
▪ Michelangelo, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, died in 1564.
portrait painter
someone who paints pictures of people
▪ Sir Henry Raeburn, the famous Scots portrait painter
landscape painter
someone who paints pictures of places, the countryside etc
▪ Turner was probably the greatest landscape painter that England has ever produced.
▷ artist /ˈɑːʳtɪst, ˈɑːʳtəst/ [countable noun]
someone who produces works of art, especially paintings or drawings :
▪ an exhibition of works by Italian artists
▪ At that time Picasso was a struggling artist, little known outside Paris.
▪ We asked a local artist to come and show her work to the students.
3. to paint walls/doors/rooms etc
▷ paint /peɪnt/ [intransitive/transitive verb]
to put paint on walls, doors, pieces of furniture etc :
▪ I’m going to paint the bathroom tomorrow.
paint something blue/red/white etc
▪ What colour did you paint the doors?
▪ The walls were painted tomato red, with matching red drapes.
▷ decorate /ˈdekəreɪt/ [intransitive/transitive verb] especially British
to paint the inside of a house or put paper on the walls :
▪ They’ve just finished decorating the kitchen.
▪ We spent all weekend decorating.
have something decorated
pay someone to decorate it
▪ Mum had the whole house decorated before she moved in.
▷ redecorate /riːˈdekəreɪt/ [transitive verb]
to change the paint or paper on the walls of a house or room :
redecorate something
▪ When they first moved in, they completely redecorated the whole house.
have something redecorated
pay someone to redecorate it
▪ We’re thinking of having our house redecorated -- can you recommend anyone?
▷ respray /riːˈspreɪ/ [transitive verb]
to change the colour of a car by putting new paint on it :
▪ The thieves had resprayed the truck and changed the license plates.
▪ After the accident I took the car to a garage to have it resprayed.
4. someone who paints walls, houses etc as their job
▷ painter /ˈpeɪntəʳ/ [countable noun]
someone who paints walls, houses etc as their job :
▪ The painters are upstairs painting the offices at the moment.
house painter
▪ Adolf Hitler worked as a house painter in Austria before becoming involved in politics.
▷ decorator /ˈdekəreɪtəʳ/ [countable noun]
someone whose job is to paint houses and put paper on the walls inside :
▪ The decorators have left their ladders and paints all over the house -- it a real mess.
▪ We wanted the work to be done properly, so we decided to get the decorators in.
5. words for describing something that has been painted
▷ painted /ˈpeɪntɪd, ˈpeɪntəd/ [adjective]
▪ On the shelf there was a painted statue of the Virgin Mary.
▪ The temple was decorated with brightly painted figures and bits of colored glass.
hand-painted
painted by a person, not a machine
▪ a beautiful hand-painted vase
painted blue/green etc
▪ The front door was painted yellow.
be painted in something
▪ beautiful jewel boxes painted in distinctive shades of red, yellow, blue, green
▪ a row of humble fisherman’s cottages, painted in pastel tones of pink, ochre, and yellow
painted with
▪ The vases were painted with pictures of flowers and butterflies.