FINGER PAINTING Synonyms: 30 Similar Words

finger painting

noun

Definition of finger painting

as in drawing

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Recent Examples of finger painting Sugar Club, the resort's kids' club, offers robust daily programming with activities like slime making, finger painting, treasure hunts, and coconut bowling. — Nneka M. Okona, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026 The artist combines finger painting and collaging on the surface of his canvases to evoke vivid colors, bold compositions, patterns and textures. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026 Examples include finger painting, identifying toys in a sandbox, or playing with musical blocks. — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2025 For toddlers and preschoolers, focus on tactile or sensory exploration activities like finger painting with mud, stamping with leaves, or drawing in the dirt with sticks. — Dr. Pooja Sarin Tandon, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for finger painting

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Noun

The drawings were extraordinary, but the text — while unsurprisingly playful — was also tropey and wanting, and the wanting came in waves.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2026
That wasn’t the Mega Millions jackpot, now up to $385 million for Tuesday’s drawing.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of drawing

Noun

Other organizations abandoned associations with Hastert, and his portrait was removed from a hallway outside the House chamber.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
While a portrait collection of the resort’s presidential guests caters to quite a fitting name, there’s a new top tier spirit and fine wine collection–along with swanky designs, space for live music, and eventually, a game of pool.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of portrait

Noun

Another is a loose watercolor that resembles a Color Field painting, rather than the technique typically associated with Basquiat.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The artist complicates the photographs further by painting over them with ink and watercolor.

— Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of watercolor

Noun

The picture painted from the interview subjects, who occasionally draw sketches of weapons-screen interfaces on notepads, is of a computerized tracking-and-killing apparatus, culled from the surveillance Israel keeps of nearly every phone in Gaza.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
But frescos don’t put shoes on a poor child’s cold feet and sketches of flying machines didn’t put Orville Wright in the sky.

— Christopher Koopman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of sketch

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Look for a silhouette that suits her personal style rather than chasing whatever trend is dominating social media.

— Ethan Stone October 9, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2026
From Fall 2019, Vaccarello’s collections began not only to recall Saint Laurent’s gestures, but to expand upon and modernize them — testing the extremes of the founder’s silhouettes and codes to generate almost unbearable visual tension.

— Luke Leitch, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of silhouette

Noun

Lulu and Georgia’s glass butter dish with a traditional silhouette and old-school etching feels like a stylish reedition of the dishes your grandparents grew up with.

— Clara Hillis, Architectural Digest, 18 Aug. 2026
For deeper etching, a polishing compound and pad may restore the finish.

— Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 25 July 2026

Definition of etching

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