How to use "painting" in a sentence

Sentences

"Yes." Sala loved painting, but the paints were expensive, so it was something she couldn't do very often.

Cham put the painting down

"And thanks for my painting, too

Beatrice had sent me four big books about painting

Her shoulder-length hair - deep brown, almost black, glossy - swept across her brow, feathered back at the sides, and framed her face as though it were a painting by a great master

The one from which the cover painting had been drawn was sixteen pages long

So I will have a love affair with the artist who is painting my picture

'About him painting my picture

He was painting a picture of Lettice