The word "painting" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when referring to the activity of creating a picture or artwork on a flat surface such as a canvas. For example, "The painting he created was so realistic it almost looked like a photograph.".
The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, who has been criticised by some senior doctors for painting an unfairly negative picture of NHS staff and the quality of care provided, welcomed the report.
"That problem has been temporarily rectified by the local authority paying for a concrete specialist company to simply knock off the crumbling concrete and painting the exposed metal underneath".
One, Helen Champion (Zenden the Clown), had been painting clowns as part of her fine art degree at Goldsmith's and had gone native.
She read about brickmaking and the Este family's patronage of the arts, and she read Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini's treatises on painting.
Krishnaraj Rao, a lawyer and activist, initiated a programme with slum children a decade ago, painting lines on the roads to mark where pedestrians could walk in safety.
The painting was remarkable too in the degree to which it was painted out of doors: Brown rigged up a trolley and wheeled the canvas every day into position.
One painting depicts with extraordinary accuracy (given the image was perhaps held in memory for months before being painted) what appears to be a.50 calibre Spencer carbine of the type carried by Cadell's party, complete with seven cartridges.
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