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finger-painting

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fin·ger-paint (fnggr-pnt)
tr. & intr.v. fin·ger-paint·ed, fin·ger-paint·ing, fin·ger-paints
To make by or engage in finger painting.
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Noun1.finger-painting - a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers
painting, picture - graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre"
2.finger-painting - painting by using the fingers to spread the paint
painting - the act of applying paint to a surface; "you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush"


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The table under the mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard dispensers looked like someone had been finger-painting with a hideous orange color, the restrooms stank, and a sign on the outside tables made one feel as if a failure to bus the table before being finished would constitute cruelty to animals.
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Movies, music, television, kids' finger-painting - it's art.
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Collectively titled "Ghost Drawings," 2004, these fluid scripts rendered in bright yellow paint are like lyrical graffiti by some unearthly creature, finger-painting in its own luminous bodily fluids on subjects ranging from the fantastic to the utterly insane: WE SAW TURNER, reads one; I AM FROM THE SUN, continues another; I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR MOTHER NORMAN, offers a third.
Pauline Stella Sanchez: Rosamund Felsen Gallery by Miles, Christopher / Artforum International
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