Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Painting

Nouns
  • painting
  • depicting
  • drawing etc. v.
  • design
  • perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy
  • chiaroscuro etc. (light) Light
  • composition
  • treatment. historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting
  • landscape painting, marine painting
  • still life, flower painting, scene painting
  • scenography. school, style
  • the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture
  • ornamental art etc. Ornament. monochrome, polychrome
  • palette
  • easel
  • brush, pencil, stump
  • black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel
  • paint etc. (coloring matter) Color
  • watercolor, body color, oil color
  • oils, oil paint
  • varnish etc. Oil.Existence, priming
  • gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass
  • enamel
  • encaustic painting
  • mosaic
  • tapestry. photography, heliography, color photography
  • sun painting
  • graphics, computer graphics. picture, painting, tableau, canvas
  • oil painting etc.
  • fresco, cartoon
  • easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft
  • pencil drawing etc., water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink
  • sketch, outline, study. photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph
  • daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype
  • negative, positive
  • print, glossy print, matte print
  • enlargement, reduction, life-size print
  • instant photo, Polaroid photo. technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome
  • Polaroid. portrait etc. (representation) Representation
  • whole length, full length, half length
  • kitcat, head
  • miniature
  • shade, silhouette
  • profile. landscape, seapiece
  • view, scene, prospect
  • panorama, diorama
  • still life. picture gallery, exhibit
  • studio, atelier
  • pinacotheca.
Verbs
  • paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up
  • color, dead color, wash, varnish
  • draw in pencil etc. n.
  • paint in oils etc. n.
  • stencil
  • depict etc. (represent) Representation.
Adjectives
  • painted etc. v.
  • pictorial, graphic, picturesque. pencil, oil etc. n..
Adverbs
  • in pencil etc. n..