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  • present participle of paint.
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painting

[peyn-ting] / ˈpeɪn tɪŋ /




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Though he went on to craft a career in the public eye as a musician, comedian and actor, painting remained his “true vocation.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Mull, who died in 2024, received his master of fine arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1967.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

He painted The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, which still hangs in St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, and is the only painting Caravaggio ever signed.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

He grew up at the mountain’s foot, and the organic rhythms of his painting, done at age 76, convey a lived understanding of its patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

That you had watched over me all these years, but soon we would be together again and I wouldn’t need a painting.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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