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In May 2007, Miguel de Icaza officially started a porting project called paint-mono.


145th Street Bridge

In an episode of The Jeffersons TV show (The Expectant Father), Lionel and George get drunk on Timberwolfs and go to paint Lionel's name on the bridge.

2010–11 A.F.C. Bournemouth season

During the 2010–11 English football season, Bournemouth will participate in League One, the Johnstones Paint Trophy, the FA Cup, and the Football League Cup.

Adolphe-Félix Cals

Art dealer Pierre–Firmin Martin, known as "Father Martin", liked his work, and Cals went on to paint portraits of Martin and his wife (now in the "Musée Eugène Boudin" in Honfleur).

Aluminum Overcast

Its paint scheme was redone in 1988 and now features a flat aluminum metallic flake paint.

Anne Weightman

In May 1907, she commissioned Adolfo Müller-Ury to paint a portrait of Pope Pius X (now at the Graduate House at the North American College in Rome).

Annibale Carracci

He was one of the first Italian painters to paint a canvas wherein landscape took priority over figures, such as his masterful The Flight into Egypt; this is a genre in which he was followed by Domenichino (his favorite pupil) and Claude Lorrain.

Avoiuli

Avoiuli (from Raga avoi "talk about" and uli "draw" or "paint") is a writing system used by the Turaga indigenous movement on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu.

Bernard Solco

Solco has also been commissioned to paint portraits and create original works of art for some of the worlds most recognized personalities including Donald Trump, Siegfried & Roy and Rudy Giuliani.

CARC

Chemical Agent Resistant Coating the type paint commonly applied to military vehicles which provides protection against chemical and biological weapons

Charles Fincher

In 2008, Fincher was commissioned by the ABA’s Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys (CASA) to paint a fantasy illustration of Constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky as a shortstop with the Chicago Cubs, the scholar's favorite team.

Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire

The Sydney artist Josonia Palaitis was selected to paint portraits of those killed.

Christiaan Tonnis

In 1986, he started to paint landscapes from literature like the "Magic Mountain (after Thomas Mann)" and portraits of writers and philosophers.

Christina Angelina

Angelina was commissioned by the musician Kaskade to paint live on his "Freaks of Nature" summer tour in support of his album Fire & Ice.

Clarice Lispector

She began to paint and intensified her activity as a translator, publishing translations of Agatha Christie, Oscar Wilde, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Coil coating

Primers require compatibility with various pretreatments and top coat paint systems; therefore, they usually comprise a mixture of resin systems to achieve this end.

Corpse paint

In the 1980s, Hellhammer, Venom, Death SS and King Diamond of Mercyful Fate (who used corpse paint as early as 1978 in his band Black Rose) were the first extreme metal groups to use corpse paint.

The earliest rock groups to don makeup similar to corpse paint included Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Arthur Brown in the 1960s, Secos & Molhados, Alice Cooper and Kiss in the 1970s and, later that decade, punk rockers like The Misfits and singer David Vanian of The Damned.

Dana Claxton

Daddy's Gotta New Ride shows an Indigenous man in a black suit with face paint and braided hair, standing next to a red Ford Mustang.

Dick Perez

He was commissioned to paint Robert C. Nix, a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice, for the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

E-tran

e-tran currently operates older Gold Coast Transit (formerly South Coast Area Transit) CNG buses from Oxnard, CA, and Akron Metro Regional Transit Authority CNG buses from Akron, Ohio painted with the e-tran paint scheme.

Fernand Dauchot

Still, the crippled artist went to Brittany in 1923 and started to paint with other artists in Pont-Aven.

Francis Dennis Ramsay

However, as the paint is not commercially available, the artist must mix his own colours using pigment powders, oil, varnish, egg yolk and a preservative; uniquely, Ramsay discovered that Scotch whisky is an excellent preservative for the egg in the oil tempera mix!

Fritz Melbye

In Peking he was commissioned to paint the Imperial Summer Palace and during his years in America he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

George Mullins

He was hired by Lord Charlemont to paint decorative pictures for his Marino estate.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

Pellizza used a divisionist technique in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint according to specific color theory.

Greta Kempton

Later in 1947, she painted a portrait of Drucie Snyder's friend, Bess Truman, and was also commissioned to paint a portrait of the President himself—the first of five Kempton paintings for which Mr. Truman posed.

GTS Technologies

In 2007, GTS Technologies formed a partnership with Geico spa the largest paint finishing supplier in Italy, another company with strong ties to Haden Drysys International.

John B. Bachelder

From his brief association with military topics, he retained a lifelong interest in them, and when the Civil War began in 1861, he was already collecting notes on Bunker Hill, planning to paint an accurate rendition of the battle.

John Tenniel

For this he received a £200 premium and a commission to paint a fresco in the Upper Waiting Hall (or Hall of Poets) in the House of Lords.

Johnstone's Paint

Johnstone's Paint is a British manufacturer of paint and current sponsors of the Football League Trophy.

Josonia Palaitis

The National Portrait Gallery commissioned her in 2000 to paint its inaugural double portrait of Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his wife Janette Howard.

Keith Mallett

He has also enjoyed considerable success with numerous sold-out limited edition prints and was honored with a commission to paint the official limited edition print commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breakthrough into major league baseball.

Keith Rowe

This change in his approach to guitar, Rowe reports, was partly inspired by a teacher in one of his painting courses who told him, "Rowe, you cannot paint a Caravaggio. Only Caravaggio can paint Caravaggio."

Kitsunegari

Later, Modell is holding a picture of a young woman in a house where a man is covered in Cerulean Blue paint.

Michael Dahl

At several occasions, Christina let Dahl paint her portrait and she was able to establish an opportunity for Dahl to show a specimen of his work to Pope Innocent XI.

Milford, Delaware

Simmie Knox began to teach himself to paint while living in Milford as a young man.

Northeast Branch Anacostia River

Portions of the Paint Branch and Little Paint Branch tributaries also drain the Cloverly, Colesville, Fairland, White Oak and Hillandale communities in Montgomery County.

Oleg Troyanovsky

In 1980, two members of a dissident Marxist group sneaked into the U.N. Security Council chamber and threw red paint on Troyanovsky and U.S. Ambassador William vanden Heuvel.

Rex Battarbee

Reginald Ernest Battarbee (16 December 1893 – 2 September 1973) was an Australian artist notable for painting landscapes of Central Australia, and for teaching Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira to paint.

Robert Schöller

When applying to the Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts in 1968, he showed up at the interview with only two etchings which he had to borrow back from clients, and eventually was told to go and paint on his own because there was not much to teach him, but, he also was invited to join a master's class.

Rufus C. Somerby

The transformation was remarkably simple: "Our figures of Russian soldiers did not need much paint to turn them into Secessionists"; Lord Raglan was remade as Major Anderson, and a model of Fort Sumter was slipped over an extra patch of the Black Sea.

Samizu Matsuki

During this period 1964 to 1968, Matsuki visited Rome and painted commissioned portraits for five Air Force officers and their wives, and was commissioned by the Officers Club of the 49th Tactical Squadron to paint a portrait of the recently deceased USAF fighter ace Richard Bong

Society of the Spectacle LLC

Their "Color Me" series of designs included paint-by-numbers drawings of popular super models including Kate Moss, Gemma Ward and Natalia Vodianova, intended to reflect how race is a socially learned concept which is best reflected by how children who are not yet affected by racial socialization respond to the issues of skin color.

Superquick

A number of Superquick models are destroyed in a scene in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, where Sellers stamps on them in retribution for his son having "fixed" a paint blemish on Sellers's Bentley by painting a "go faster stripe" on the side.

The Dorset House

Maine decoys, for example as seen in the work of Gus Wilson, are typically solid-bodied with wide, flat bottoms and simple paint patterns.

Thinner

Paint thinner, a solvent used in painting and decorating, for thinning oil based paint and cleaning brushes.

William Gush

The Board of Trustees of Mount Allison University at Sackville invited Gush to paint a full size portrait of Charles Frederick Allison, the founder of the University.

Wobble board

According to an interview he gave to Tony Barrell for The Sunday Times Magazine in 2001, Rolf discovered the musical properties of hardboard by chance, when he was about to paint a portrait of the conjurer Robert Harbin in 1959.


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