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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.
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.
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
We are going to wait until we have refurbished and repainted it before selling.
An open casement window provides the painted studio's interior light.

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Bruno had also bought calamine lotion and after our shower we patterned ourselves all over our bites like Aborigines painted for a corroboree.
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
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.
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
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
I was in a beautiful and cushy room, with maroon painted walls and plush chairs all around.
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.
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
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
There may also have been some influence from painted scenery used in the theatre.
Apart from portraits, Kelly painted landscapes and also pictures of Asian dancing girls that were once much reproduced in the form of popular prints.
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
Dressed in a sheer teddy, a very personable smile painted across her white face, she returns to the stage carrying a small basket.
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
Some loincloths were painted and decorated with tassels, which symbolized falling rain.
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.
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.
There is scumbling with charcoal at the bottom and at the top, some of it painted over with white.
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.
We painted the wooden floor with a white stain.
All internal ironwork and insides of gangways were painted with aluminium paint.
Stone walls are left exposed or clad with broad wooden planks and painted white. Times, Sunday Times
The wagons were all unpainted and plain, making them look dull compared to the bright colourful tents.
Despite the bright blue woodwork, the artfully painted sign, and the Fablon fishes which swim across the display window. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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.
Likewise in a built environment, as peeling walls are repainted, drains are unclogged, and rooms and household amenities are added.
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
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.
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
At the table Otho brooded over his geomancy figure while the innkeep consulted the painted cowhide. A TIME OF WAR
An original plan to make sure all taxis were painted black-and-yellow was dumped after cabbies baulked at the cost.
Ten adult elephants - each with a number painted on it - were successfully moved and released in this fashion.
The patch - painted to depict a North American Indian mythical half-eagle, half-hawk thunderbird - is hallowed ground.
They were mostly tarred up to the top planks and then painted blue or white. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. A Room with a View
A large white cross has been painted roughly on the ground.
There were painted mallards, wood ducks, and mergansers carved where possible in and on the armrests, in fact.
Worse than that there is a right turn arrow painted on that one lane, for a side road going off to the right.
He painted a rosy picture of family life.
Cyril Connolly had been a contemporary at Eton, and painted the most celebrated pen-portrait of the Prime Minister-to-be in 1938.
Fairweather painted mainly in earth colours used by the artists of South-East Asia and the Pacific and he was one of the first artists to assimilate aboriginal art into his own work.
Charles Gordon Frazer painted Cannibal Feast to provide an insight into the cannibal civilisations he feared were on the brink of extinction after witnessing the feast while hiding in long grass.
Constructed of pine, its painted surface is an exuberant expression of the artist's imagination and creativity.
Often referred to as a Proustian painter because he painted from memory rather than from life, Bonnard is even more a Jamesian one. The Nation: Top Stories
Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
The cap-like sunshade painted on a skyphos, which a Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Combine this with the effort by South Carolina Republicans to tar the state's Democratic gubernatorial nominee Vincent Sheheen with now-infamous accidental candidate Alvin Greene and I think you're seeing conservatives get revenge for a year of being painted as allies of "birtherism" and conspiracies about the president. Embracing the crazy
Painted in 1953, it dates from the period during which Barns-Graham, originally a figurative painter, was reconciling hard-edged geometrical abstraction with a love of landscape.
Rockets of early manufacture are painted battleship gray or dark green; later rockets are olive drab.
I remember the railings near the boarding bridge - slatted iron painted white - and to my surprise I also remember the main hall, although my memory was of a place much larger.
There are also curious red-painted contraptions known as pedicabs, a sort of cycle-and-sidecar.
The room was painted a lively electric blue.
In 1941 and 1942-by the sun and a blue sea that she sometimes seems literally to be drawing with, far from her family and the tumult of Berlin, humming as she worked - she painted 1,325 gouaches.
A large red heart with the figure of a female nude scratched on the surface, was a favourite of his fiancée and was painted shortly after he met her.
Eating in means busing your tray to a windowless back room outfitted with children's school chairs and communal tables pushed up against sponge-painted walls.
For ever and ever the trendies, the sophisticates and the beautiful people have painted us on the right side of politics as boring squares, joyless fanatics, religious nutcases, and monoethnic bigots.
Wargames Factory have posted a photo of a painted version of the "Boudicca" figure that is included in their upcoming Celt Chariot boxed set. Tabletop Gaming News
Assane Dione has painted a portrait of Amadou Bamba that has been reproduced and sold as a snapshot-sized print all over Senegal for several years now.
Once spray painted, these meters are unreadable by Parking Enforcement Aides, meaning vehicles can't be ticketed as it's impossible to see if the meters were fed or not. The Parking Ticket Geek: Has The Parking Meter Revolt Begun?
This, apparently, was the very room from which Monet painted his celebrated views of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament, hung in (acceptable) reproduction around the walls of the pretty, panelled sitting room. The Smartest Hotel in the World
The walls were painted with a water-based powder distemper, usually in grass green or primrose colour.
The new refrigerator and dishwasher were disguised with wood fronts painted to match the cabinets.
The artist has painted the scene from various viewpoints.
Joining the disks are thin wire strands, painted yellow and orange, that zigzag across the front.
For example, if you've painted the bottom of your bodyboard, take a picture of it and send it in.
This impression is reinforced by the panoramic curve of the back wall, which, even though it is painted a uniform dark grey, suggests a cyclorama or stage backdrop.
Each of the six windows features the image of a plant mentioned in the Bible, along with a memorial statement and two roundels containing painted symbols representing the Gospels.
The piano, decrepit on its legs, though made of good wood painted black and gilded, was dirty, defaced, and scratched; and its keys, worn like the teeth of old horses, were yellowed with the fuliginous colors of the pipe. A Daughter of Eve
A row of tractor tires, painted white and planted with petunias, was the sole concession to aesthetics. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
We went driving in the country on Sunday afternoons to look for some of the birds that were special to us: bluebirds, goldfinches, pileated and red-headed woodpeckers, and, most thrilling of all, painted buntings.
Up until two weeks ago, he painted and cranked out brief, autobiographical vignettes - one a day.
In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted, visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked, complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’.
The living room was painted in pastel shades of pink and blue.
The dark-painted rim and foot imitate Japanese cloisonne enamel vases, which often feature dark rims and bases of shakudo, an alloy of antimony, copper, and gold.
The most important item will be a painted silk armorial hatchment from his state funeral car. A Home and Its Love Story
Colonial New Englanders were also familiar with such floral motifs through imported calicoes and palampores (block-printed and painted cotton bedcovers) imported from India.
In 1512-13 Raphael painted above the entrance arch of the Chigi chapel in S. Maria del Popolo a fresco with sibyls and prophets.
The still life is painted with surprising attentiveness.
These big, freely painted, heavily collaged unprimed canvases together form something of a spiritual marching band, though they mostly seem to follow the beat of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The lantern is suspended from chains fixed to the center of a shell cartouche with a representation of another royal crown painted on the ceiling of the Queen's Staircase.
The naos has a painted barrel vault and the pro-naos a flat-timber roof.
The second Act seemed to be set in a corridor-as-waiting-room typical of many hospitals I have visited, but with the rear wall being a flat of painted forest.
There are no painted signs to repel native beachcombers and yet it seems the indigenous people know instinctively where to tread, where not to go.
She loved the gracefully high ceiling, with its white-painted cornice.
Mr. Bedwell obtained a shield from one of them, of a crescented shape, and painted with black stripes; it was made from the wood of the Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
On the crosspiece he had painted the words: Oliver Bean.
The bulb in the shell-shaped lamp on the wall flickered like a strobe light and painted irregular shadows on the walls.
Covered by an eggshell wash, through which blue painted lines form blowsy chrysanthemum blossoms. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
Hanging over the sidewalk was a wooden sign with a large white tooth painted on it.
A long write-up about the project painted a rosy picture of the future. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
The Pontus desk (image below) is a generously proportioned partner desk combining walnut, oak and painted finish with cable management system and hidden router/hard drive storage built-in.
Giotto painted upon wood, and in "distemper" -- the mixture of colour with egg or some other jelly-like substance. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People
They sit precariously on top of one another on a square of unpainted plywood around which are scattered little metal balls of varying sizes.
As a matter of fact, my brother painted very few things, at any stage of his career, as mere representations of reality, unimbued by some inventive or ideal meaning: in the rare instances when he did so, he naturally felt an indolent comfort, and made no scruple of putting the feeling into words — highly suitable for being taken _cum grano salis_. Old Familiar Faces
For S. Paolo, in Verona, Francesco painted a panel-picture in gouache, which is very beautiful, and another, also most beautiful, for the Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
They are usually painted by nonacademic artists and unknown painters.
She's often been painted as a tough businesswoman.
On one shoulder was fixed the painted figure of an owl; and he bore in the right hand his pastoral staff, and in the left a small mirror having a handle to it, thus resembling a celebrated jester, whose adventures, translated into English, were whilom extremely popular, and which may still be procured in black letter, for about one sterling pound per leaf. The Abbot
He painted oils of industrial buildings in a precisionist style, and he also did dainty flowers and fruits in watercolors. Portrait of An Artist
The hull is then faired and painted in the traditional black for the Galway hookers.
Meanwhile, to hold you for a while, here's the latest wonder painted for me by Jen Haley: a crossbowman's pavise in 54mm scale. Four More Miniatures
Painted in shades of brown and gold, and heavily outlined in black, each twist of sisal may be read as a discrete unit.
The only painting of his to change hands in recent years was a Nativity, stolen in 1969 from a church in Palermo - where Caravaggio had painted it after having escaped from gaol in Malta.
The canvas has often been compared to a snapshot, but to Sussman it looked more like a painted film still, art's first cinéma vérité moment.
Tanka came in a variety of sizes and were often painted on cotton or silk.
Oversized wooden gallery benches made for the show are painted with exaggerated woodgrain patterns.
While I had the deck off of my riding mower, I sandblasted and painted the topside, then applied two coats of fiberglass resin to the underside.
It gave his face a lean, rather surprisingly attractive ascetic look—the look of long-distance runners, saints, martyrs, and fanatics, the kind of elongated, soulful face that El Greco painted so hauntingly. Twilight
When the sketches were finished, the students painted them with tempera.
These colorful batiks are individually handpainted for a unique piece of wearable art.
Icons were painted by faithful painters - usually monks - in monastic seclusion.
The ancient vase was painted with pastoral scenes.
A telling example is the narrative cycle painted on a cassone, attributed to Filippino Lippi (1457 – 1504), probably commissioned by wealthy Florentine Jews. Art: Representation of Biblical Women.
They lodged us at the Seaman's Rest, took our painted rags away and clothed us in blue "civvie" suits which seemed to us the height of sinful luxury. The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
Mints. wild bergamot, and yarrow, attract the American Painted Lady, Anise Swallowtail, Gray Hairstreak, Monarch, and Red Admiral.
Small steps could make a big difference; by having cupboards painted instead of replaced you can save a fortune. Times, Sunday Times
He's not very friendly, but he's not as black as he's painted.
This is what nature has done; as for men, they have hugely painted the lakeward wall of the castle with the arms of the Canton Vaud, which are nearly as ugly as the arms of Ohio; and they have wrought into the roof of the tallest tower with tiles of a paler tint the word "Chillon," so that you cannot possibly mistake it for any other castle. A Little Swiss Sojourn
Their kitchen is painted an unusual shade of yellow/an unusual yellow shade.
The larger villas were equipped with hypocausts, mosaics, painted walls and ceilings, but they remained the centres of agricultural estates.
Ptolemy Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were putting a jigsaw puzzle together, a scene of flowers, grass, and butterflies painted on thin wood that some master craftsman with a fretsaw had cut into small, irregular pieces. Antony and Cleopatra
Never use abrasives on either anodized or painted surfaces as they will scratch it.
In Hampstead he moved into a bedsit on the same road as the Nicholsons, which he promptly painted white, and worked in a studio next door to Nicholson's. Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works
Structures have been strengthened, archways rebuilt, mosaic floors retiled and chapels repainted - lavender blue, daffodil yellow, sunset red.
I'll be waiting for you at the entrance of the pub which has a sign painted with a red lobster.
We are standing in a spacious kitchen painted a dusky pink colour that, were it a lipstick or nail varnish, would be called Plum Beautiful or Berry Sorbet.
So the researchers believe that one artist painted Madonna and one canonized pair, while three other artists composed the remaining faces.
Society women quickly took note and queued up to have their portraits painted in similar poses.
The first examples had painted wood or engraved and silvered dials similar to those of long case clocks.
Her early work consisted mostly of impressionistic nudes and still lifes painted with a bold palette.
Less than three hours before the ‘opening’ the FLAT crew painted the floor with black enamel paint to smarten it up.
The images were transferred lithographically or hand-painted on to glass using transparent pigments and then issued in sets of eight or twelve.
Most were gilded, although painted faux-marble frames are also found.
Take time to appreciate your stellar grades, that awesome masterpiece you painted for art class and the way you've been able to reach out to a troubled pal.
The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
Her flowers are exactingly painted, petal, leaf, and stalk; her plates and pheasants waiting to be plucked are textbook - perfect.
freshly painted lawn furniture
I'm wondering if he could be painted as a jaeger since Elite doesn't have a standing jaeger figure yet. Early Elite Miniatures - I Want These Figures
_predelle_ must certainly have been painted within a very short time of one another. Luca Signorelli
Although this painting clearly bears the stamp of genius, we don't know who painted it.
When realistic treatment in modelled stucco had been carried as far as it could be carried, the fashion changed again, and a portrait painted on flexible canvas was laid over the face of the mummy. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
When you painted your bedroom, you missed a bit under the window.
Bali painting unique, mostly with plastic and mineral pigments painted on burlap or white canvas on the theme drawn from the pastoral scenery and the people's living habits, with rich local color.
The room was painted a subtle shade of pink.
York motorists have got used to the No Right Turn sign painted on the road at the exit to Museum Street.
They are often heavily embellished with embroidery, beadwork, and hand painted floral designs.
The following advertisement also appeared in the same edition: The gaily painted caravan of the Irish tinkers is still a common sight on the country roads, the waste lots and outskirts of our cities and towns.
Her colours are luminous, with multiple layers of pigment, painted quickly but with great care and attention.
The photo passes tests of symmetry that the painted chandelier fails, Stork says.
Prize-winners received book tokens and were treated to an interesting talk on how the murals were painted.
Most antique furniture can suffer as a result of extremes in temperature, especially painted and lacquered examples and those inlaid with marquetry, brass or ivory decoration.
It was the sailors'first night ashore ; they painted the town red.
So he took his old shoe and painted it out and slapped the new shoe logo on that shoe, trying to see if he could if he could get away with it.
Walls can also be hung with textured papers and then painted.
The British too have been painted as villains, accused of using the trials as cover for a plot to shut down the island.
They were shown how to make colourful outfits, tabards, headbands and banners using brightly coloured silks that they painted.
Lipsky's hand-painted edges and the sweet smell of oil paint that had subtly impregnated the gallery were the only echoes of Guston's painterliness.
The book is a hand-made collection of Emmanuel's etchings and lithographs, some of which are painted by the artist.
The window frames have also been scrapped and repainted and the leaking roof of the oriel window has been repaired.
That has to be very cool to see your literary creations made corporeal in pewter (and then hand painted!). Pick Your Pewter Poison
I open the window of my study and see the Painted bat, roosting in the foliage of the monstera creeper, is already asleep after a night's wandering, covering its body with its bright red and black wings.
The hand-painted sign above the laundrette door reads, PERSONAL LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
When the Irish portraitist, Nathaniel Hone painted her in 1765, she was at the height of her popularity.
Her work is abstract, using geometrical shapes subtly arranged and typically painted in soft colours.
Her eyes, a startling blue-gray danced and twinkled in the light streaming in from tall, elegant windows framed with green marble columns topped by gold-painted fluting.
Fences, wooden shutters and doors are painted in striking colours to contrast with the indigenous cream-coloured limestone of buildings.
Then they kicked our painted faces in. Times, Sunday Times
They jut from girls 'lids like an underbite, fanning the air in great whips of painted wind, and they form the fluttering basis of a trend spreading faster than conjunctivitis. Up front: Eva Wiseman
On this panel, Brunelleschi painted a view of the baptistery from a representation that he had traced on and over its mirror reflection.
Boucher's next portrait of the marquise was painted in 1759, well after she had ceased to share the King's bed.
Thinking back, the impression I have is of a cotton plant painted silver.
These elaborately painted masks represent a pair of horned animals, each with a porcupine quill sprouting from its head.
They painted almost exclusively altarpieces in a dramatic late Baroque style.
I pushed him off me as hard as I could, a victorious smile painted in my mind as he lay flat on the ground.
We dissuade any lady from touching or going near a zebra's mouth, or the horns of an ibex or an algazel, or the pointed bill of a heron or stork, or from putting her hand near this fine painted pig. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
Joe Cocker plays a pimp/hippie character whose goatee is painted on using the same technology used by Groucho Marx no less than 355 years ago. Across the Universe is the Best Comedy of 2007 | Best Week Ever
The cymbidium orchid became a popular subject for Chinese artists during the Song dynasty A.D. 960-1279 and was often painted in the dark ink of calligraphers. Free & easy
The shaft of long handled tools should be a light wood, such as ash, and should be unpainted and free of knots.
I picked up a brach from the rugby field and painted it in white. I'm a big fat liar

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