How To Use Paint In A Sentence

He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
Mix up pots of poster paint, and give your children a pot of paint in each colour, a couple of brushes and a glass of water.
Apart from paintings he produced a good deal of graphic work, including numerous book illustrations in lithograph and woodcut.
A couple of coats of new antifouling paint may cost the equivalent of a couple tanks of gas, but you will keep saving money on fuel all season long.
This absorbing profile muses on his universal popularity and compulsive desire to draw and paint. Times, Sunday Times

They use cheap materials and actually destroy a lot of decent furniture and fittings in the process - if something is considered unfashionable it gets taken out or painted over.
Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
Sometimes I go through spells when I just draw, when I just write, when I just paint.
We also went to the DIY store for garden stuff and for a big bucket of white emulsion paint to brighten up the walls in Graham's workshop.
To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
If you think of a piece of hair as a pencil, the medulla is the graphite, the cortex is the wood, and the paint on the outside is the cuticle. The Tenth Circle
What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance. Archive 2008-03-01
Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism. Ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing
There wasn't a blank spot anywhere, beautiful carpets covered most of the floor and there were paintings and animal furs on the walls.
We are going to wait until we have refurbished and repainted it before selling.
They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
He fenced and boxed, but also played the cello, drew and had a deep appreciation of painting. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
An open casement window provides the painted studio's interior light.
There will be much consulting of paint charts in the next few months. Times, Sunday Times
Scrabble to its list of more commonplace activity holidays, such as painting and gardening. Times, Sunday Times
In 1537 it was ceded to Angelo Massimi, who commissioned Perino del Vaga to paint frescoes on each of the lateral walls and on the pilasters on either side of the entrance.
Sprucing up kitchens and bathrooms by repainting units, or adding fresh new tiles, can be a cheap way to up the asking price.
No major American artists in the twenties were making totally abstract, non-objective paintings.
Wielding his blade like a master painter, his palette holds only one colour, and that is crimson.
Moisture blisters usually include all paint coats down to the wood surface.
Price as tested is $44,600, including $8,525 in options Deep Sea Blue pearlescent paint, eight-speed Audi Tiptronic transmission, high-intensity discharge headlamps, power liftgate and onboard navigation with backup camera and an $875 destination charge. 2011 Audi Q5 2.0 T Quattro
Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
You can do a search on calcimine paint removal and find lots of different tips.
Bruno had also bought calamine lotion and after our shower we patterned ourselves all over our bites like Aborigines painted for a corroboree.
For all their rough-and-tumble, burly-bully image, I haven't yet met one who doesn't go all moony over a good painting.
Above the altar is a portrait of St. Francis de Sales, painted by a fellow convert who became a Visitation sister. Cardinal Newman at Birmingham: Liturgical Items (Part 3 of 3)
PAUL LEPAGE, Republican governor of Maine, ordering a 36-ft.-wide mural in a government building depicting Maine's labor history to be painted over TIME.com: Top Stories
Rub the surface with sandpaper before painting.
Painter and decorator Geoffrey Jenks was so shocked when he failed a roadside breath test, he felt his Cokes must have been spiked, Kennet magistrates in Devizes heard on Tuesday.
You should tone down the red colour in your painting.
He paints in oils and acrylics with a unique sense of color and shape.
Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
Surfaces painted with semi-gloss or eggshell finish paints are easier to clean than flat-finish paints.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream. Vincent van Gogh
The shamal comes in quickly and silently, like an ocher paint roller, and can blow for several days straight, subsiding slightly at night when the air is cooler. Peace Meals
From the time that I was tall enough to peer over the low, white-painted wall behind the goals, I would attend Easter Road: week in, week out.
At the bottom of the staircase a door opens into the white painted kitchen, where a small cooker supports an oversized kettle. Times, Sunday Times
The costumier Tanya took us again to check the costume painting.
With each soft shadow and sharp crimp exquisitely rendered, the act of painting serves to overwhelm the subject.
Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
The morons do not even protect the exposed steel with paint - and something as simple and old-fashioned as using galvanized bolts in the first place is clearly way beyond their ken.
The following year police raided an exhibition of Lawrence's paintings and seized every canvas on which they could descry any wisp of pubic hair.
Of course, he does this not through imagery alone but through turning the paint itself into a kind of turbulent human clay.
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The Archaic period (c. early 6th century - 480 BC) saw a great flowering of Etruscan art with the production of fine tomb paintings, funerary sculptures, and architectural terracottas.
In her studio in the loft at the top of the house, half-completed oil paintings sit alongside crayon masterpieces by her daughter.
I was in a beautiful and cushy room, with maroon painted walls and plush chairs all around.
They buy paintings at auctions, mark them up and then resell them at a vast profit to collectors.
Yeats painted the little scene across both front and back of a paper envelope which was then stamped and franked when he posted it to John Masefield in 1905.
In an almost unnoticeable state like light or air, it could hang like a painting, existing at the edge of perception.
The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
With the development of programs like Paintbox and Photoshop, computers began to color the work of traditional artists as well.
All of modern art since the middle of the previous century had been based on rebellion against academicism and Ingres was the painter most associated with academicism.
A touching painting was the one depicting motherhood made in canvas by K. Kumaran.
Inside, the walls were all plastered and painted pale colours with cream carpets - very novel for the early 1970s in Ireland.
This is a fantastically good-looking car in the metal, especially when painted in the lurid shade of orange this model is sporting. Times, Sunday Times
Interestingly, for all Rauch's fractious subject matter, his painterly touch isn't turbulent at all, but instead measured, calm and neat.
The paintings are some of the artist's most sober works, but there is a lightness of being at their core, as well.
I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Booth paints a grim picture of life in the next century.
Basically, when I finally do repaper, it will involve painting and re-doing the entire upstairs of the house, and I will lose a whole summer of writing time. The knob theory of the universe
As the student's uniforms are traded for spears and war paint, the innocent boys devolve into uncontrolled, bloodthirsty hunters and ultimately, savages intent on killing the "beast".
Also, it paints a very good picture of the make-up of our wintering bird population.
Son of a court equerry in Munich, he was apprenticed in 1582/3 to the court painter, Hans Donauer.
Pictures like "Snoball," which portrays a snow-cone shack with a yellow topped cone is softened by his gentle sense of humor: it is almost a "Pop" painting. John Seed: Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass (PHOTOS)
Use your noddle - clear the shelves before you paint the cupboard!
I could paint allegories, elegies and epic statements because the imagery was so strong and the colours of life were so rich.
In paint programs, by contrast, he can only add previously created images to the surfaces, which is not as effective.
He offered ten major paintings to start a national gallery of modern British art.
The company also caters breakfast or lunch every week and funds other periodic after-hours activities such as karting, shooting, paintball. Jobs.joelonsoftware.com
He recommends using paintable, siliconized acrylic caulk inside to seal areas where window trim meets the wall and frame. Saving Energy on the Cheap
A mix of vibrant paintings and cutting-edge research explains the history of each hue. Times, Sunday Times
When he was at the roulette tables gambling on chance, for him it was the same thing as he was doing with paint. Times, Sunday Times
The painter decided to grey the sky
Now, whenever I go out on the porch I remember how rusty and pitted the railings used to look and how it bothered me, and the several hours I spent sandpapering it smooth, then the three coats of brown Rustoleum I applied, and now I'm watching it get whiter and cleaner with every new layer of paint I apply. A Productive Day
I have seen everything you listed except the department store dummy, but would add paint cans, freon cannisters, old TV's, and other stuff that are hazmat if you try to take them to the dump! One Trigger, Or Two?
Her later sensual works contrast starkly with the harsh earlier paintings.
Classical painters developed the use of animal hair, and the paint brush, as we know it, was born.
There may also have been some influence from painted scenery used in the theatre.
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Within four minutes he has worked out that he bought a painting from my father-in-law in the early 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
Their inspiring successes paint a vivid picture of how this is necessary.
Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing - and drawing the figure especially.
Whether or not Hugo was a wall-painter, the records of his activities as carver and manuscript painter attest to his versatility.
He paints a hellish picture in which sea and sky become indistinguishable and the men battle for survival.
I told him I was new to painting, not to physiognomy.
Her paintings are of ordinary everyday objects.
Apart from portraits, Kelly painted landscapes and also pictures of Asian dancing girls that were once much reproduced in the form of popular prints.
Cui Jie's dystopian scene from 2011, "Bar," also evokes the painterly eeriness of German artists Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch. China's Rising Art Stars
A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
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Big sheets of paper cover the patio, and kid-safe paint, rollers, brushes, and stamps are everywhere.
The Cavendish Street gallery is showcasing the work of 10 artists, including both well-known painters and non-professionals.
I meant painted in the sense of a pigmented cementitious finish that is applied to the surface of the brick before firing. Green Building Elements: Brick
The blurring of paintings and sculptures works well throughout the building. Times, Sunday Times
However, Nature, that at first sight appears so lovely, is on consideration almost always incomplete; moreover, there is no painting intertangled foliage without losing half its beauties. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art
Dressed in a sheer teddy, a very personable smile painted across her white face, she returns to the stage carrying a small basket.
Some makers still bolster these paints with components like formaldehyde, crystalline silica, acetone and ammonia to help preserve the paint or give it other properties, such as spatter-resistance. Painting Without That Smell
He is strongly influenced by Spanish painters such as Goya and El Greco.
When repainted it was undersealed as well and all rubbers replaced.
The units will have fully fitted offices with suspended ceilings, recessed lighting, painted and plastered walls, perimeter trunking and gas fired central heating.
I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
Plain English painted wooden cabinets mixed with stainless steel island unit. Times, Sunday Times
Assemble disassemble tables chairs with care, minimizing damage to equipment walls, including scratches, paint chippings, etc.
If workmen breathed in the fine paint spray, their lungs would be damaged.
We creep the hill, flat on our bellies through yellowed grass and stone, black dirt grimed on our bright faces like powdered war paint. Along the Battlement
Wall painting can be broadly defined as any painting in which the support is the structure itself - whether a free-standing building, a subterranean tomb, or a rock-cut cave.
Otherwise the room is uncluttered, much like her paintings. Times, Sunday Times
Before you turn the page, wondering why I've chosen such a dreadful piece of sugary sentimentalism for this week's painting, give Greuze's grieving girl a second glance.
You can commission them to paint something especially for you.
Rarely, a person with iron-deficiency anemia may experience pica, a craving to eat nonfood items such as paint chips, chalk, or dirt.
The paintings of the Post-Impressionists, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, which formerly hung in the claustrophobic, columned Bellechasse gallery, are cosseted now one floor below in small, elegant, midnight-blue galleries dedicated to the late scholar Françoise Cachin, who served as the museum's first director. New Visions Arrive at the Orsay
Flooding and floating affecting the appearances and the effect of latex paint and film were investigated.
It is a sombre painting with the only bright colour provided by the clergymen's vestments and by the headscarves of the women.
By training dental practitioners to make space judgments and subject arrangements in art painting, the practitioner can promote the ability of reconstruction, which is essential in esthetic dentistry.
Some loincloths were painted and decorated with tassels, which symbolized falling rain.
Paintings, drawings, animations and at last the feature films all augment our appreciation of Lord of the Rings.
The family made a gift of his paintings to the gallery.
The artist combines different techniques in the same painting.
From the tastefully appointed mosaic inlays and concaved walls adorned with statues and his paintings, the mosaic swimming pool and Japanese garden with plenty of creature comforts, make for unforgettable ambiance. San Antonio
Long pieces of sheer pink fabric were draped over the high white painted metal bedposts and the bars above that attached them.
They were first painted as gouaches and then printed in 1948 in the studio of Albert Carman, City Island, New York.
He delights in the society of brilliant painters, singers and musicians.
But it would be both inaccurate and unfair to paint too bleak a picture of education in England.
Suddenly, some big cannons come rolling past, painted in camouflage colours. Times, Sunday Times
I had taken Jason to the Roseland headland in the Fal estuary by the green-painted East Narrows navigation buoy - due east and one mile from the docks.
In this painting, the harmony of rich tones evokes a sense of the marital relationship it depicts. Times, Sunday Times
He finally reached Bear Dooley's half-closed office door, which was burdened with numerous layers of thick brown paint. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
Paint and other chemicals can be taken to a HazMat center for disposal.
There is scumbling with charcoal at the bottom and at the top, some of it painted over with white.
Linear perspective is not a major concern for these painters, but the some paintings do achieve a sense of aerial depth through the mixture of brush strokes and the varied diluteness of ink. Stories from The Sun
They then painted the outlines of their face and facial features with a dark color of acrylic paint, tracing their pencil sketch through the Plexiglas.
He made it over two months from a combination of processes involving painting and cut-and-paste images, using a crackled paint effect to make it look old.
A painter who had been working on the clock tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down!
Woodcarvings, bamboo mats, wooden partitions, paintings, wall hangings, brassware, metal icons and pooja articles are also on display, besides ready-to-eat products.
Working your way across the ceiling widthwise rather than lengthwise, begin painting a series of overlapping W's until the ceiling is mostly covered.
The organic materials in grounds, gilding, paint films, and varnishes become embrittled with age and can no longer flex to accommodate movement in the support.
Golub, whose large-scale paintings drew inspiration from everything from Greek kouroi to images of male pornography, used a technique that was more sculpture than brushstroke, famously using a meat cleaver to create aggressive peaks on the canvas. Home | The New York Observer
Perhaps the original decoration lies intact beneath the layered generations of wallpaper and ever-changing tastes in house paint, ready to be rediscovered.
It took more or less a whole day to paint the ceiling.
We painted the wooden floor with a white stain.
Mice produced reaginic antibody within 1 wk of painting with the contact sensitizing agent picryl chloride.
All internal ironwork and insides of gangways were painted with aluminium paint.
It's impossible to put a price on such a rare painting.
Leave the paint to dry between applications.
He's slowly painting a picture on an easel that's facing away from you.
In the second session, children were exposed to art works such as art from waste, clay modelling, making Papier-mache dolls and pot painting.
Stone walls are left exposed or clad with broad wooden planks and painted white. Times, Sunday Times
There's still the bathroom to go - which requires some serious scraping to get rid of old peeling paint.
The wagons were all unpainted and plain, making them look dull compared to the bright colourful tents.
He writes, directs, photographs, edits and probably paints the scenery and makes the chow as well.
Painter cleared of bar assault charge A SELF-employed painter and decorator was yesterday cleared of assaulting the manager of a Harrogate bar.
a painting, remaining alwaies vnhurt, with their deawie freshnesse, reseruing and holding their colours without interdict of time. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Columns of the arcade are simply the rolled steel members of the frame, exposed and made silver with intumescent paint.
Despite the bright blue woodwork, the artfully painted sign, and the Fablon fishes which swim across the display window. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
I remember saying at the time that the swirly water looked as if God had washed his brushes out after painting the sky.
Sighing, she shifted her grip on the painting and mounted the stairs.
NUREMBERG SCHOOL: Half-way between the sentiment of Cologne and the realism of Prague stood the early school of Nuremberg, with no known painter at its head. A Text-Book of the History of Painting
In this season of strikes — mostly against proposed pension reform — we've seen the Eiffel Tower closed to visitors and Metro train interiors reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch paintings. It's Lights, Camera, Strike in France
According to company officials, Owen has gained widespread recognition as a Western painter of fine art, and his work in gouache captures present-day working cowboys.
There is a spontaneity, a wonderful painterly quality that bridges several techniques and makes them unlike other mediums.
The amount obtained by auctioning the paintings will be contributed to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.
The paintings reveal Terry's skill as a draughtsman and colourist.
The station house was one of those fortresslike concrete structures, painted green on the outside, with heavy green entrance doors, and adorned with old-fashioned gas lamps near the entrance. Dancing with the Devil
He painted Avlekete, the Fon spirit of the sea, outside, next to the wall of juxtaposed African and African Diaspora Vodun symbols.
I spent an hour or two scraping and repainting, then filled the feeder with birdseed, hung it near the shed, and watched to see who would take the bait.
His paintings feature bright intensities of color, unique contrast, relationships of space and a palette of approximately 100 pure, unmixed acrylics.
Painting helped take her mind off her troubles.
She bequeathed her collection of paintings to the National Gallery.
In addition, while Senator McCain was certainly correct in the debate when he claimed that Colombia and its President, Alvaro Uribe, constitute the U. S.'s number one ally in the region, HRW's new report paints a picture of Uribe as a major obstructer of the process to cut the fatal ties between the Colombian government and the murderous paramilitaries in that country. Dan Kovalik: Obama & Human Rights Watch -- Colombia Must Improve Human Rights
Likewise in a built environment, as peeling walls are repainted, drains are unclogged, and rooms and household amenities are added.
Painting is best done in daylight.
The paintings are long or tall rectangles or approximately square panels and are about as big as game boards.
Next beyond the barbershop, which is two doors beyond the general store and postoffice, was a little one-story building, weather-beaten and badly in need of paint. Thankful's Inheritance
The artist painted her strolling her garden.
Ray painted below the waterline with a special anti-rust paint.
A significant look was exchanged between the devotees, but no words; the friar departed, and the nun, still silent, conducted her through many solitary passages, where not even a distant foot-fall echoed, and whose walls were roughly painted with subjects indicatory of the severe superstitions of the place, tending to inspire melancholy awe. The Italian
The red dots of paint with which Cretan walkers have marked the way are not always easy to spot.
A painted horse is a quarter horse with colour, not like piebald or a pinto.
But the painted kerbing and the gaily-coloured banners can't disguise the extent of the social and educational deprivation of this community.
One of the main advantages of this exhibit is that it showed works from the three main genres of the art - painting, graphics and sculptures.
Can you imagine painting without a brush, sewing without a needle, or writing without a pen?
The show includes Bouguereau paintings of a water girl; a bather; two gypsies; and a nude winged Cupid, and is fleshed out with paintings and sculptures by his contemporaries, including a striking tondo by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The Shape of Things
This oil painting is true to nature.
Someday soon a Chinese ink painting is going to outsell Picasso," said Joe Lin-Hill , an emerging-markets professor at Sotheby's Institute of Art, a graduate school run by an affiliate of the auction house. The China Factor
What he paints is a harrowing image of Hell. Times, Sunday Times
'Traditional methods of dating the pigments, such as radiocarbon, are destructive to the paintings, and the samples are prone to contamination. Signs of the Times
An aerosol spray will make short work of painting awkward objects.
In removing the uppermost layer of painted plaster from the cut-out chunk of wall, conservators discovered an underlying sinopia or underdrawing.
Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables
In "La muerte en el este de EdÃ©n/Death in the East of Eden," Hernandez has painted Eve, our foremother, as a dead naked woman wearing the mask of a luchador with orange antlers. Max Benavidez: ELAC's VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene

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