He had no paddle, Gabe had thought, looking intently at the painting. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I go through the service entrance, lugging my box of paintings. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now that she knew she was a shadowshaper, the painting took on a whole new life for her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear did not believe that Kang was painting his pieces—but what else could one do with small amounts of colored slip? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Poppet removes her coat, leaving it draped over the back of the desk chair, and takes a closer look at the blueprints and sketches hanging from shelves and tacked to mirrors and paintings and windows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She turned back to her own painting, on a much newer concrete facade adjacent to the old brick building from which Papa Acevedo’s face stared out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Right. And a triangle whose longest side is at the bottom. So what is different about the feel of this painting?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The halls of Clairmont used to be decorated floor to ceiling with black-and-white family photographs, paintings of dogs, bookshelves, and Granddad’s collection of New Yorker cartoons. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other’s faces with bright pink swirls. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with paintings, and sculptures of fish and birds that she’d made. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was also during that time that a starving young artist, who had been given lodging in the house out of pity, paid for his stay by painting the only extant portrait of Clara. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No one can see what you are painting if you paint with water!" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A bright streak of blood stains one thick strand of my hair, painting a dark red streak into it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You know how the creature came out of the painting, Jam-jam?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Like someone who would make a beautiful painting. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Since Mom had more paintings than we had wall space, Dad nailed long shelf brackets to the wall, and she hung one picture in front of another until they were three or four deep. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Caraway was on a stepladder outside, painting windowsills. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

His emotion, so evident in his paintings, is in his letters, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Flora slid off the couch and walked over to the painting and stared at it more closely. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Since he pledged himself to art, Vincent has gone back and forth between drawing and painting, learning about one from the other. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Raymond Pettibon. He’s most famous for his paintings of surfers, but I like his spirals. He was a punk musician before he became an artist. He was in Black Flag before it was Black Flag.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked at the children the way another looks at some rare painting or treasured gem. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, wow,” I said, following her eyes to the painting in question. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

What’s more, unlike the paintings bequeathed to posterity by Constable or Rembrandt, his music has not ossified, frozen for ever in time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Even so, there remains a good deal that puzzles us about the cave paintings. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in splattered white coveralls stood outside it, apparently taking a break from painting the exterior. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had a choice, which picture to include in my painting. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The water was dull green, like the trees in a Hudson River School painting, but it looked glassy and clear. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I look around and do a double take at an odd painting—and then realize that the room is filled with them. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

After he felt the painting with his finger, he said he had something to show me, too. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He does feel joy, though, as he hangs Vincent's paintings in the new flat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, I give up and take out my invisible brushes and just start painting in my head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Brunelleschi’s paintings did not have vanishing points, but they did have situated viewers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is clear that this strange peep-show set-up ensured that the viewer looked at both the painting and the Baptistry with one eye—geometrical perspective depends on a single point of view. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He gave the painting one last glance, and then they climbed the rest of the way down the scaffolding. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

OPPOSITE: Maria made paintings like these in her study book to record her findings as she investigated. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I mean—yeah, I was there, but she was just painting the car....” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And this is what I truly thought: that I could cover these spots by painting all my clothes crimson red, and that if I stood perfectly still no one would notice this change. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to jump on the horse in the painting and fly over the hills. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the oldest known painting on rock surfaces comes from Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent is experimenting with different styles: aspects of pointillism, mixed with the more graphic approach of the Japanese paintings he loves. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He nudged Ron and pointed to the painting just behind Flermi- one. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Liszt spearheaded a shift from orchestral to illustrative music, using this 1850 painting of Attila the Hun in battle as the basis for his symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He even suggests we could keep painting together. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They stole books, ruined paintings, and broke scientifical equipment stored there by the professors of King’s College. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was creepy to feel a feeling as if it was a substance, and Jam immediately yanked her arm out of the painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Since Anna was an excellent artist, and specialized, like a lot of women of the time, in painting flowers and plants, she hung her own beautiful botanical watercolors on the walls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s already seen some of your paintings. You don’t have to be so nervous.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I got up and hobbled over to get the painting of Papa-Nnukwu from my bag. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bitter hadn’t been painting since Pet showed up. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The mermaid in the painting in the prefects’ bathroom was laughing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

With his answer, Theo sends Vincent an analysis of a painting by Edouard Manet, The Dead Toreador, painted more than twenty years earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Downstairs the front doors slammed, and my older brother, Tidings, who had been painting the fence by the front parking lot, yelled, “Attention, all personnel! Where are the big umbrellas! I need rain cover!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not really. That’s a print of a Vermeer painting called The Geographer. There must be thousands of them around.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He makes up a set of books, for the business end of my painting: what has sold, and for how much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could work instead of sitting around on her butt all day painting pictures no one ever wanted to buy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the creature showed up in their house, and out of her mother’s painting, technically that would make them its hosts. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Albert didn’t even glance up at the painting. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The painting on the top showed a man with ponytail-length hair leaning over a table. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

By this point, he has thrown himself back into his own painting and has forgotten we exist. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

With quick expert strokes, she started painting her toenails. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“They say a new painting appears right before a story of greatness is about to be told.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was only after the French discovered similar paintings, partially obscured by millennia-old mineral deposits, that the Altamira drawings were pronounced authentic. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It right there, you don’t have to keep calling it a painting.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"They will see this painting when it is ready to be seen," Painter Chen said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There is more open space in the country, more light to shine on his paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When Ms. Schwartz said that one of her paintings was at our museum, I decided I needed to see it right away. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There are still some buildings boarded up, with the windows busted out and replaced by paintings of would-be windows with curved drapes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“My mom makes these beautiful paintings,” I say to her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

If I could see even a bit of what that woman saw, I could carry that image with me forever, and I bet my paintings would be amazing. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He immediately writes to Theo and tells him the money he sends will go to Ma and Pa, not for his painting supplies. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was a painting, a vase full of delicate flowers, bright blue, lavender, and red carefully painted on a scrap of wood. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up both, taking extra care with the painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s interesting how you did this,” he says, peering more closely at the painting. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His paintings are great impastos of pigment: chrome yellow, Prussian blue, vermilion, carmine, very light cinnabar green, emerald green, Veronese green, orange, lemon chrome yellow, geranium lake, silver white, zinc white.... Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the artist fills a sketchbook with pieces of a person, and uses the drawings as a foundation for a finished painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My dad and I, we were like that Edward Hopper painting. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Abu taught me the basics of drawing, and from there I moved on to painting and sketching—I loved anything where I could be creative with colors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But after two years of total immersion in art history, I found my experience of looking at paintings and sculpture totally transformed. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Annabelle pictures Dr. Mann, sitting in her office with the painting of the red and yellow mountains behind her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The walls are covered in old paintings and photographs. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But most of all were the drawings and paintings and carvings of eyes, big and small, all over the room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

This was something from the other side of the painting, the parts Bitter’s brushes hadn’t touched. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Some paintings stay on a wall; not this one. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

What the apprentice or art student learns are skills and techniques: established ways of drawing, painting, carving, designing—established ways of seeing. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painting of a tennis match between black and white players where neither had yet to score. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were statues and pots and paintings all over the place, with spotlights shining down on them like in a museum. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even worse, Werfel had collected some of the airy art of elfinkind, captured generations ago in some raid—paintings of heroes riding griffins and kings playing chess. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

By some trick of the curved lines, my eyes got lost in the painting so that I kept having to refocus on tiny individual pieces of it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was only one demon painting left on the wall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“My aunt gave them to me, but really, I’m too old for finger painting.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Either way, the painting might cause her pain. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We were taking a break from painting the gym. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

By the time we reached the cliff site with the paintings, we had finished our water. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I see you, you know. The way you paint with such love. And you always stare back at the painting as if you aren’t sure you’re truly worthy”—he hesitates—“of being loved back.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I nodded, remembering the painting I had observed on the wall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like painting—you don’t just use any color you feel like; you pick the color that fits the subject the best. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I distinctly remember when I finished painting it that Grandpa had a faraway look in his eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But a poor man—what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 2008, researchers from the University of Paris ascertained that the Chauvet paintings - which lie within huge, inaccessible, pitch-black networks of tunnels - are located at the points of greatest resonance in the cave network. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“That’s a painting by Mr. Norman Rockwell,” Stella’s mother told the girls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a flurry of overhauling and painting and mending to be done. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these years later and they still have that creepy painting up. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"Painter Chen dared give me an unfinished painting! I will double tax his village for the next ten years!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

One stormy night last July, a large painting arrived via truck with armed guards. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The world around her had lost its color; everything looked gray and cloudy like a smudged watercolor painting. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Among Leonardo’s many interests and accomplishments—in painting, sculpture, anatomy, geology, natural history, military and civil engineering—he had a great passion: to devise and fabricate a machine that could fly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next room was a large gallery with paintings hanging floor to ceiling. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I feel guilty for painting him with my paranoia. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Eyes as big and sad as the eyes in a Keane painting. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He told Lori he would help her write a paper that would demonstrate that Shakespeare’s plays had multiple authors, like Rembrandt’s paintings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a portion of a shoulder and the back of Diego’s head as if he were walking out of the painting. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Taro comes into my room while I'm painting and flicks my ear. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The person in that painting would have pressed the button. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually Dad’s painting improved, and the first trunk was finished. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Mom in the next room singing while she worked on one of her paintings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Many are completely drenched and I should think their painting must be streaky.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I said, pointing to a framed painting behind Mr. Tushman’s desk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Daniela appears in my head like a painting: doughy skin, dull hair, sinking eyes, crooked nose, long face. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But companies whipped up prejudice against unions, painting workers as communists, and strikers lost public support. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Jinny stood up so that she could lean in and see what Nat was painting, what the others were looking at. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was bound in dark brown tooled leather, and the frontispiece was a painting of a fairy woman, elegant and pale, wearing a beautiful golden gown. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am,” Katherine says, a smile breaking out over her face, making her look like an angel from a painting. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

So he and his crew are doing that, and remodeling the inner office, installing some cabinets, painting the vents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She looks as though she is contemplating a painting or reading a sign from far away, squinting just a little. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He thought it would be a sort of joke: self- conscious cominess, like a painting of a giant Coke bottle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His drawings are studies for paintings, studies after paintings, and also just drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As he waited for it to warm up, he looked in to the living room and imagined it as a painting. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Many of the paintings had been transported to the Konigstein, but some were seriously injured by splinters of bombshells,—notably Francia’s “Baptism of Christ.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the place where he’d hoped to mount the show falls through, he decides to hang the paintings right in their apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Now let me ask you this—has anyone here ever lived right next to the el tracks? 6TH JUROR: Well, I just finished painting an apartment that overlooked an el line. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her attic was full of paintings and an organ and an old spinning wheel. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

On the same day that he moves completely out of the family house and into his studio, he sends the painting to Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was a weight thrumming through the floorboards in a low song, and that was how Jam knew the painting was done. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You sure like painting houses,” I told him. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the fact that I was painting it—that was my statement. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He tells his friend Émile Bernard that he wishes he could paint more from his imagination, like Bernard can, but he's most comfortable painting outside in nature. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was straight out of an Aaron Douglas painting, except there were faces. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Osh insisted on thanking her with paintings, which she hung all around her house. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

To my left was a darker room, another sitting room, this one filled with foreign furniture: dark green leather sofas, paintings with hunting dogs, armchairs, and mahogany desks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that animation, hanging on the wall behind Anorak, you could see a large painting of a black dragon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Why did Maria insist on painting her insects with the plants they favored? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Scrawling the word JEW in thick yellow paint and painting crude yellow outlines of the Star of David. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Vincent is still working hard and is making progress. His paintings are becoming lighter, and his great quest is to get sunlight into them,” Theo tells Lies. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She then pointed to the painting of the woman on the wall. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The former paintings in the lobby—landscapes aglow with Manifest Destiny, scenes of Indians being slaughtered—had been carted down to the basement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There are several kinds of flowers in the painting; one is called honesty. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Around the house he hangs the paintings he’s made, ones he thinks Gauguin will like. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“She isn’t a musician, and I’m not a painter. It isn’t on account of painting that I let things go.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of marriage I will be dedicated to my painting. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Finish the mural, Sierra. Finish the mural quickly. The paintings are fading...” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He hears the words “painting” and “wall,” so he looks for paintings on the wall. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In general the painting is going very well for him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Something will come to me, and then I’ll know my painting is finally ready.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“There was some water damage in 1928,” said Penney, “and the original gold mosaic on the interior dome was replaced by the painting of the angel.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was a painting on the wall, a guy with a rifle across his chest looking as if he was having a vision or something. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Something large and loud in the center of the painting had the hind legs of a goat, fur like grated bone, solid thighs, their surface thrusting toward the ceiling of the studio. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She arranges the paintings into a neat stack. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

What I love most about the painting is that Judith and her maid are slicing off the man’s head, but they don’t even look scared. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The last thing I want to do is start crying in front of Hiroshi because he told me I’m basically wasting my time with this painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Working from a mirror, of course, would produce a reversed image, hence Brunelleschi’s interest in looking at his painting reflected in a mirror—and, happily, he had one to hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My painting is taped to one of the kitchen cupboards. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Per his custom, Painter Chen did not dot the eyes of the dragon and gave the unfinished painting to the magistrate. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No, not yet. I still have to finish the painting.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A perfect storage place, it looked almost identical to the one behind the Geographer in Vermeer’s painting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

If I could detect a flawed painting so quickly, why had it taken me so long to see the truth about Dr. Lange? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When she wasn't writing to my grandfather, she was probably training bougainvillea vines or painting watercolor landscapes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Down the alley the women’s art guild members were removing their paintings from the fence and folding their aluminum lawn chairs like Arabs in preparation for stealing away. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He always looks with very great interest at Uncle Vincent’s paintings.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Only Louis Sullivan: embittered, perfumed with alcohol, resenting who knew what, but not above coming by Burnham’s office for a loan or to sell some painting or sketch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The man studied the store window as if he were assessing a painting, and then went back inside. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Hussey had the newspaper under her arm, and the first thing she did was read aloud the article about the Vermeer painting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because Patrick didn't believe in having himself bonded, we rarely moved anything of great value, no museum-quality paintings or extraordinary pieces of furniture. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath of cold mountain air: there were no boundaries; the world below and the sand paintings inside became the same that night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This 1640 painting by Jacob Marrel is from a catalog used by flower merchants to advertise newly cultivated varieties for sale. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There had been years when art filled Vincent’s life: beautiful paintings and drawings he had seen in The Hague, in London, in Brussels, and in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He got up and walked over to the wall and removed a painting, revealing a wall safe. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m painting what might be my last version of this house with its shingles and panels. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was on one of those days that Jaja came into my room, shut the door, and asked, “Can I see the painting of Papa- Nnukwu?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I am admiring the painting,” I said without turning around. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The painting, then, is testimony to the artist’s faith, for he was a Catholic living in Protestant Holland, where his religion was officially banned, although worship in private houses was tolerated. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is no coincidence that the figure of the Fallen Woman stalks through so many operas, novels and paintings of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some captive chimps love to paint, and if they know ASL, they may actually sign what the painting is supposed to be. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took the painting out of the bag and unwrapped it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The all-white furniture, accented with black animal sculptures and black-and-white paintings, was as polished and camera-ready as she was in her cream pantsuit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As a Ph.D. student, he’d used HeLa to help develop something called fluorescence in situ hybridization, otherwise known as FISH, a technique for painting chromosomes with multicolored fluorescent dyes that shine bright under ultraviolet light. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He said he had shot himself in a wheat field where he was painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think if Grandma had finished painting that pink on everything I might have calmed down. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how this can be but it can: A painting is both exactly the same and entirely different every single time you look at it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It is not known whether Henri was a good painter or not for he threw himself so violently into movements that he had very little time left for painting of any kind. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, she opened her eyes and saw these blue-green sheets and that painting of the sea. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pretending she was just reading her magazines deeply and without a thought to the person painting windowsills in the hot summer sun behind her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She opens the bottle and starts painting on her nails. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“A painting of one,” I said, and took another sip of the Coke. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She held her hand there, allowing some of the spirits to flow through her into the paintings, making sure they had enough time to fully engage. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The painting brightened and then seemed to awaken, each mermaid and monster flexing and turning ever so slightly, as if rising from an epic nap. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Looking into it gave Nailer a spooky feeling, as if he were about to fall into the painting and onto the deck of that ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For all its obvious theatricality, the painting is surprisingly muted: David seems to contemplate Goliath with a mixture of sadness and pity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painting over their fireplace, by Daniel Aronstein, was a modem depiction of an American flag: strips of frayed muslin layered with oil paints in greens and mauve. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ivy looked at the paintings of flowers and mountain scenes already hanging on the walls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like a painting was hung inside the plane showing us a glimpse of Cuba. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes, the painting is traveling just now. It’s in Chicago. There’s going to be a show called ‘Writers in Art’ at the Art Institute.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I try to calm down by reminding myself that she was the one that cornered me into doing this painting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe that meant the man in the painting downstairs was Oberon Marvel. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

This garden is the one I didn’t recognize—from Gram’s unfinished painting. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jam’s eyes traced up the arms and to the twisted torso, the arched back, the chest turned up to face the top of the painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The art establishment also objects to “the new painting” for what the artists paint: contemporary subjects such as train stations, cafes, bridges. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The house was ugly, full of cheap furniture and cheaper paintings of horses and saints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Katz’s face lit up like the birthday boy in a Norman Rockwell painting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two were painting the decorative rocks around headquarters, the kind of thing that we all did stateside, and the other two were cleaning inside. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the silty, drippy, turdy timbers lugged up by the floating cranes look nothing like the shining galleon in the paintings. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And for all I’d know of it, it might as well be a painting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He shook his head over a painting that was nothing but bright red slashes, quick thick lines. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t want a painting like that hanging over my couch. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Francis kept watch while Henry and I went up to the attic and searched through broken lamps, cardboard boxes, ugly Art I oil paintings. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I studied the picture he was painting: tourists in swimsuits, lounging on the beach. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two summers ago we went to Chicago, where the real painting takes up one entire wall of the Art Institute. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Using costumes, sets, and props, the participants arranged themselves to depict some recognizable scene—a famous painting, perhaps, or a well-known fable. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The person in that painting with the steel bones and legions in his skull would have saved Jesse. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We probably started painting our nails Immoral Coral after everybody sensible had already gone on to pink, but heck, at least we are all behind the times together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fill four pages of sketches until I settle on a painting of a woman with a shaved head dancing in a swirl of fire. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I did not get a chance to tell Jaja about the painting until the next day, a Saturday, when he came into my room during study time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I watch her eyes trail over to my painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then she noticed that both Joon and Ben had stopped painting to stare at the other end of the table, where Nat was working in utter silence and concentration. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I eyed the shed behind our rental house and was reminded of one of the paintings at the hospital, the red barn. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Julia races around the edge of my painting, her arms spread wide. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He saw the brother and sister running down the marble staircase ahead and aimed jinxes at them, but merely hit several bewigged witches in a portrait on the landing, who ran screeching into neighboring paintings. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The artist George Innes came and made a famous painting called “Delaware Water Gap.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And he ruined your paintings. He should be punished for that.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

You can imagine the scene: a dark-paneled room, an artfully frayed Persian carpet, row upon row of leather-bound legal volumes, oil paintings of Mr. Mudge and Mr. Rose on the wall. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t suppose there is an American who doesn’t carry Remington’s painting of the last defense of the center column of the 7th Cavalry in his head. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed the key on the table, beside the torn painting and shattered glass. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

How could some creature from a painting know these people, her people, better than she did? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s hand is wrapped around her shoulder, and her father is pointing at her acrylic painting—an image of a house on a lake, with several geese dipping their toes into the water. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Papi and I parked here last summer when we did some painting as a trade for our book fees. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He uses some of his drawing techniques in his painting, too—dashes and strokes, working to find the painting style that he likes best. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mom was painting a picture of a woman drowning in a stormy lake. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hide the paintings under my pool of dirty water before Mack can see them. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They were creating cave paintings apparently at least as early as the Cro-Magnons in Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But even if the preindustrialized Appalachians were only half as wild and dramatic as in the paintings of Durand and others like him, they must have been something to behold. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They should forget this disagreement and be together as before, painting, talking. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I also saw a painting of a beautiful woman sitting cross-legged on the grass under a tree. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Riccio made faces at the masked lady smiling down at them from a large painting on the wall. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So are you the one who has been painting with Rei's dad? Man, you're like the luckiest person alive,” a stocky boy with red curls says, his face swollen with awe. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when they emerge, they mark a house by painting a big red X on the front door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A corner of one of my paintings is visible. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The artwork must be stowed away, though, because in all my spying I didn’t see one painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

If you look at the classical nature painting above, you will see a lot of “white space.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Water stains formed brown abstract paintings between the store windows. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a painting of an old man in a purple robe over by the door. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In this painting, in the centre near the bottom, Brunelleschi made a hole, and the viewer was invited to look through the back of the painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Joseph remembered that name from the painting near the door . . . which meant he knew the ship was doomed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The painting is small, remember? The canvas is only about a foot by a foot and a half.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No. The painting is about how she makes me feel. It’s not about my mom—it’s about me.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Your mental image has probably been influenced by paintings and movies about that time. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, it was time to get to work painting the main backdrop for the play. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You just chose natural things. How about paintings, or music. We say, ‘The potter makes a beautiful vase.’ Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“This used to be my painting studio,” he said, waving his hand at the pavilion. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The famous rock paintings at Chauvet, France, are located at the points of greatest resonance in the pitch-black cave network. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One of his paintings, which he makes toward the end of March, is of two pink peach trees, one behind the other. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

People in New York loved art and music so much, she said, that artists sold paintings right on the sidewalk next to string quartets playing Mozart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I have your painting on the mantle. It was beautiful. You look... quite well. Did you have the fever?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent might have referred to it as a drawing, not a painting, as he often did when he used watercolors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Not right now, when I prefer painting to trying to fit in. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It only took a few minutes for Wind Being to construct a complex sand painting around Nathan and Pond. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as they could afford it, they began to fill their houses with lovely paintings and fine furniture. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pale squares on the walls where paintings once had hung. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Every kid had lined up for lemonade—and then wanted face painting and hair braiding and fingernail polishing and toenail polishing. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The horses in the painting still leapt the fence. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had Turner cleaning and painting, dragging rugs outside and beating them, opening windows for new air, and bringing light to rooms that hadn’t seen any since the century began. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

One claim is that even if the university experts did not discuss painting explicitly, the painters learnt about their theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then my heart starts beating faster as I notice paw prints on the painting from where Mango walked across it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe Jess is upstairs in the spare room, painting, or maybe they’re in the shower together, her hands pressed against the tiles, his hands on her hips. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writing books, watching films, and painting pictures are forbidden. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Another of his books, about painting, warns, “Let no one who is not a mathematician read my works.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It circled all around them, and at the edges of the sand painting was the elongated body of a Rainbow Being. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But Vincent's painting already had gotten so much better while he was in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He is desperate for his paintings to sell—they are selling some, but many more have to sell so that Theo can recoup all the money he's laid out for Vincent over the years. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“So think about that. Those paintings have been there for almost five times longer than that.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I picked those because I could tell the paintings were looking at me as hard as I was looking at them. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Many of the people in the paintings are sharply individuated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Cecile was forever writing on walls when she lived with us, and Pa was forever painting over them. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Before the fifteenth century, paintings and drawings were largely flat and lifeless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They made Pollen Boy right in the center of the white corn painting. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was a Muslim married to a Syrian American, managing a sprawling painting and contracting business. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Squares on the floor become trapezoids in a painting; everything gets gently distorted, but it looks perfectly natural to the viewer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the center of the sand painting, Nathan saw a human with a square face and what looked like glasses. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In 1301, Giotto, one of the founders of modern realistic painting, witnessed another apparition of Comet Hailey and inserted it into a nativity scene. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes one of his first oil paintings, View of the Sea at Scheveningen, with a fishing boat and several figures on the beach. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They’d been wondering if the women who kept turning up in Vermeer’s paintings were his family, surrounded by the everyday stuff of their lives. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

To support this credo, he submitted a goodly number of original drawings and oil paintings. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Since the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the arts have been flourishing—painting and theater and literature. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The new job in London is not in a gallery; it’s a stockroom that supplies stores with wholesale reproductions of popular and famous paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And then he meets eyes with the painting. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

As if light beams just break through certain parts of the paintings. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Carrying plenty of drinking water, Marie and I set off at noon on a hike of a few miles to the paintings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Someday he would love to create his own painting community, a studio where painters can live and work together. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He will keep drawing—and by the end of his life the number of drawings will equal the number of paintings—but by calling himself an artiste-peintre he means he’s not just a draftsman. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Through my contacts, a virtual layer of bright colors adorns the buildings, painting each one in the colors of their respective team. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He peered around the cozy space, covered with red and black carpets and paintings of the Afghan countryside. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She puts the paintings down on a pile of them already resting on the dining room table. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mango immediately walks over and sniffs the edge of the painting. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Penelope could read the names off the engraved brass plaques mounted below each painting: Admiral Percival Racine Ashton. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Another of her uncle Bill painting in a field of dandelions like a hippie. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I was always encouraged to embellish my flower painting with caterpillars, summer birds and such little animals, in the same manner as landscape painters do, to enliven the one through the other.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I curled around myself tighter, around the pieces of the painting; they were soft, feathery. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I study paintings in which there are pearls, crystals, mirrors, shiny details of brass. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the painting Nighthawks, but even more depressing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Directly beneath the familiar black dragon painting there was an ornate crystal pedestal on which rested a gold chalice encrusted with tiny jewels. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He did not appreciate that I wanted to read books and that I saved money to buy an easel when I turned fifteen and that I would spend the afternoons painting pictures of trees. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The baby-sitter would sit in front of a painting, sigh a great deal, and sometimes write things down. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mom is sitting on the couch painting her nails bright red with a gossip magazine propped against her knees. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I walk over to my favorite painting, Judith Slaying Holofernes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They turned to me, and Osh sat again among his painting things, facing his easel. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She and I were painting an apartment, and he had offered the use of his twelve-foot ladder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Like when it hurts to think about selling the house, she tells herself how that bad feeling is just one dot in the giant Seurat painting of our lives. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“C’mon, let’s get back so it doesn’t take me any longer. I want to bring the painting to the cemetery before dinner.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Let me check my computer. If the painting is on loan, I can tell you.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, back at his palace, the magistrate saw this error and attempted to fix the painting himself—which caused the dragon to come to life! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He’s in awe of the success Gauguin has already had with his painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But he’s still overwhelmed by the debt he owes his brother and is determined to pay it back, even though it means painting must take over his entire life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When she dares look outside, the people are paintings, outlined in black, their faces crushed and squarish. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gunters had filled countless message board threads arguing about the meaning of the painting, about what the black dragon signified or whether it signified anything at all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were mostly black-and-white portraits of bands and a few famous paintings. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Stylized painting and sculpture existed only to teach religion and adorn cathedrals—the true masterpieces of the Middle Ages. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other major site of cave paintings in Lascaux, France, was also discovered by accident. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the painting was stolen and she realized that her ideas about Vermeer’s work sounded like the thief’s, she had been frightened. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A small framed painting hung to his right. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Vitruvius described something like perspective painting, but the Renaissance invented a new combination of subjectivity and objectivity, the situated viewer and the vanishing point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Masaccio’s painting shows Christ on the cross in front of a chapel with a barrel vault—but of course the chapel does not exist; it is entirely a painted chapel. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was Nathaniel’s painting, the flowers he sent to me when Mother was ill. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is enough space to hang a painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a wooden carving of the map of Honduras, and a small American flag. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So he decides to set aside his disdain for institutional learning, left: over from his days at theology school in Amsterdam, and enroll in a painting class at an art academy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The first time the shape was used as a representation of love was in a painting from 1250. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The moon was high in the sky, painting the woods beyond their back door in silver and shadow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dad was in the garage painting the identification numbers on his J-3, and so when the phone rang there was no one to pick it up but me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Next to it, there’s a painting of a much younger Granddaddy in his navy uniform. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s picture is an old oil painting, like something that should be hanging in the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She imagined him up there, someone like Velutha, barebodied and shining, sitting on a plank, swinging from the scaffolding in the high dome of the church, painting silver jets in a blue church sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the platform and saw that the painting was safe, he stopped to rest. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a painting of an old man on a mountain, looking at the sea below. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Many of the caves in the buttes are splattered with ancient pictographs—rock paintings of hands, stars, frogs, and human figures, all reminiscent of Joan Miro, in overlapping red and yellow and brown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Theo now has works by Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Seurat in his private collection—in addition to all his brother’s paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I use the second bedroom for painting, and keep the door to it closed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ben peers around the apartment, gaze flitting from painting to painting. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

What if she was the former owner of the house, or maybe she was married to the man in the painting downstairs? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If his paintings were any indication, then there was more to him than I imagined. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It speeds my pulse and terrifies me, and I look at the painting of Tariq, and it's such a good likeness that I feel as if I'm really looking at him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They actually looked vibrant in my painting, because I was happy that day. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He predicted that the painting family would soon produce a number of landscapes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She preferred to look, in the other museum, at the paintings; but still she did not understand anything he said about them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He glanced back to the paintings, and I looked to see which image caught his interest now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only as he approached could he decipher that it was a painting, and only once he was before it, what it depicted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I jump up and down, twirl the painting around, and get up on a chair to hold it aloft. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Those are my paintings on the walls,” he said. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then my parents and Aimee began turning the warehouse into a gym, painting all the walls and cleaning the place and bringing in top-of-the-line equipment. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Zero had destroyed the things that mattered most to me—my pieces of the past, my ornament and my father’s painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My second student was a fifty-six-year-old “society photographer” from Windsor, Ontario, named R. Howard Ridgefield, who said that his wife had been after him for years to branch over into the painting racket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The individual effect of a gene, Fisher argued, was like a dot of a pointillist painting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Vincent helps, advising him on which paintings to show and which to buy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They walked over and Jam leaned forward to look at the painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Mom was up on her ladder, painting in another seagull. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta, it turns out, actually has a talent, which is painting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother moved to Myrtle Beach, finding at last the scene in her painting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she was happy in her eastern robes and if Giles had succeeded in painting his face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He blurred out the background and added wild swirling color to everything around us so that we’re...exactly like the couple in the painting! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I’d watch the Mendozas, the Mexican family next door, arriving home in their pickup loaded with ladders after a long day of painting houses, greeted at the fence by their yapping dogs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe it made Pet seem more like an individual, not just a random creature popping out of a painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But he made sure he never finished any of his paintings so they would not come to life. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Where was I when he was climbing up on the sign and painting it, leaving an offering, finishing our project? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You see,” she said, “you say you’re not slick, and yet, here we are, in this romantic little club surrounded by all your hot paintings. I think you might be slick, mister.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just as it’s hard to describe what makes a piece of music or a painting aesthetically pleasing, it's equally difficult to describe what makes a mathematical theorem or a physical theory beautiful. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the painting around his chest with his arms. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They hold their gifts forward, as if presenting them to someone who sits or stands outside the painting. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anatole’s face in profile, with his down-slanted eye and high forehead, looks like a Pharaoh or a god in an Egyptian painting. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the chair, and the woman took my hair and started painting this creamy white stuff in it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By now she’d reached into the painting almost up to her armpit. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He remembered the black of the sand paintings on the floor of the hogan; the hills and mountains were the mountains and hills they had painted in sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And my mother is painting these blackout screens. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Baba stopped painting and looked over at me with a thoughtful frown. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Farewell!” cried the knight, popping his head into a painting of some sinister-looking monks. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Gina smiles the tight smile of an Italian countess in a Renaissance painting. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And here was someone willing to tramp out into a wilderness brimming with the unknown and bring back paintings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I wonder,” Petra said slowly “if paintings that float into your mind on their own are kind of like flying frogs or disappearing people.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Van Gogh didn’t sell any paintings, either,” Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad kept a sharp lookout for surreptitious painting, and was especially suspicious whenever one of the girls looked particularly pretty. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just weeks after Dorus's death, with his father no longer there to please—or displease—Vincent has made a painting of a family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was a mystery to both of us why his painting wasn’t valued in this family. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Here was his desk, and above it a painting of his favorite ship, the Unicorn. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The living room was airy, the walls free of photographs except for a turquoise painting of a long-necked woman in a turban. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Although a number of artists have been competent in both painting and sculpture, only a handful managed to bridge the gap between them with complete success. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max helps me set the painting up in the bakery the night before the grand opening, and we drape it with sewn-together sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls on the rubber gloves she keeps in her top drawer and lifts the painting by the corners. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Theo is relieved that again, with his own paintings, the art he loves, his books. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some of her paintings hang in the upstairs hall, greenish paintings of flowers, of lawns, of bottles and vases. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But as they unpacked their boxes and hung up their winter clothes and the silk paintings of elephant processions bought on their honeymoon in Jaipur, Twinkle, much to her dismay, could not find a thing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She’s interested in only three things that I can see: dancing, painting, and sex. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s two o’clock in the morning, and your mother’s painting is standing here in our bedroom.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Jack’s arms were crossed now, and he studied Mr. Remora the way you might an abstract painting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My paintings themselves he regards with wonder, and also apprehension, like a small child looking at a candle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If only they could sell more of his paintings! Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Diego had mentioned an art show, and I wondered if any of his paintings were on display. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He finds none of Breton’s paintings, only a picture of him at a photographer's shop. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was about ten feet long, glistening gray, with a painting of a barn owl above an olive tree. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She looked desperately around the room—the cracked ceiling, the floor mosaic, the wall paintings, and the carved altar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sat in the center of the white corn sand painting. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to the music while flipping through the paintings. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But his paintings become a guide for Vincent as he works to develop his own style of painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt, everyone remote and unknowable. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

That was the worst day of my life, and that painting was me on the worst day of my life.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Looking at the painting again, we see something else. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He hangs paintings by Bernard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and a few other artists—including himself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If this guy was so clever, why did he put the safe behind a painting? Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There had been a brief spell when Redemption was interested in painting and had spent a few weeks hanging out with Bitter in the studio. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He seemed excited about the whole thing, and Jam couldn’t bring herself to break that, the story, the magic of a creature spilling out of a painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He makes almost 150 paintings, some after his favorite artists, like Millet, just as he did at the beginning of his career. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There, hanging over the sofa, was a big version of the painting on his box. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of Hiroshi’s paintings—squirrels having a tea party—hangs between the two back windows. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Photography is a new art, and Vincent will never like photographs as much as paintings, but he wants to expand his knowledge of all art. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I never looked at the painting when Papa was at home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She looks soft, pretty, like a girl in a painting. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m going to practice with the Cathedral swim team and I’m going to work on some paintings and I’m going to get a job.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The triangular shape of the boy leaning on the ledge gives stability to the painting, which helps to suspend the fleeting instant in time. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of the exhibition hall were covered with paintings and drawings, all with animal or environmental messages, made by Roots & Shoots members from different parts of Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Again, for the hundredth time, or maybe the thousandth, I wonder what is missing from my painting. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I say I have to stay after school, which is true: I’m painting the decorations for the next dance, palm trees and girls in hula skirts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The window looked strange in the dazzling air of the desert, giving onto the deep-shaded bush, a square of thick green vegetation hanging in the air like a painting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The house was indeed Elizabethan, with wooden panels along the corridors, ornate chandeliers, and oil paintings of old bearded men in tunics and ruffs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Netherlands and nearby Belgium are known for their great art masters and their reverence for painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling you, I couldn’t have made the painting come alive! You don’t remember the last time? It takes blood, Aloe, the work does always take blood before something like that could happen.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If you lowered not the mirror but the painting, what you would see is yourself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

An hour passed before we finally tied Mom’s paintings on the top of the car, shoved whatever would fit into the trunk, and piled the overflow on the backseat and the car floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when Mini angled the compact to reflect the portraits of screaming women, the paintings revealed something very different: skulls. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Princesse stared at the painting for a long time and then she picked it up, cradling it as though it were a child. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Less than a year later, the painting hung next to the door of the studio, and now Aloe leaned his hand on its frame as he took off his socks. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even mention the forty-two thousand old oil paintings of stuffy dead guys with fur collars no one cared about. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mom covered one of the squares with a painting of a maple tree. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The man in the antique painting above the fireplace stared down at him disapprovingly. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her men-friends would assume a sort of forced heartiness, and ask me jocular questions about history or painting, guessing I had not long left school and that this would be my only form of conversation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The snaggle-peaked mountains, the braided green rivers, the sky so blue it seemed like a painting—Roy had never imagined anywhere so beautiful. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hiroshi blinks at the painting on the wall like he's not entirely satisfied with it. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, if the technology can be adapted to it, we should send some paintings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he’s done painting, it’s nighttime. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I could see through the wrapping: it was the unfinished painting of Papa-Nnukwu. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t notice the chandeliers, the old paintings. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Especially I do not like them to be hungry when other peoples give money to someones for painting their toes. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The paintings too—mostly oils in deep blues and greens—had sea themes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painting might have been done by a second grader, a second grader who was now a grandparent. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a painting of a tall thin man. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside it you can see paintings, of women in long somber dresses, their hair covered by white caps, and of upright men, darkly clothed and unsmiling. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moche artists confined themselves to perhaps half a dozen subjects, painting stories of supernatural figures on pottery and murals with ever more naturalistic technique. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could never enter a painting into a school competition for everyone to see. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were numerous pictures—drawings, prints, a watercolor painting or two—all of high quality, as far as Hannah could judge. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"If only we could live in this painting," she said to him with tears in her eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His spirit had entered the painting and was taking control. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They visit the art museum in Brussels and talk about the paintings they see. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His paintings—which I did not understand—impressed our best artists. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For people to remember us by. Our own version of cave paintings.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Later Mrs. Castro found Angela inside, alone, crying in the painting studio. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath and slid her hand into the painting, along the creature’s neck, following the smooth metal of the feathers under her fingers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a textbook for the class, just the picture book of paintings and a few CDs of classical compositions. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Molly follows her down a long hallway lined with oil paintings and etchings in gold frames, the Oriental runner beneath their feet muting their footsteps. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The soldiers left the library, deposited the lead weights by the front door, and headed up to the second floor, knocking their shoulders against the paintings of the Lockton ancestors that lined the staircase. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s definitely a noticer, the kind of boy who would know if you’d rearranged a painting or added a new vase to a room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room was a large painting that caught Hugo’s eye. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Roza edged away from the fireplace, from the horrible painting over it, like an animal sidesteps a snake. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I think there’s something sewn into the painting.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I believed she thought of her paintings as children and wanted them to feel that they were all being treated equally. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, it was two big white rooms just with paintings—beautifully displayed with plenty of spaces between them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chalkfur Bitter had painted was rustling now, and Jam held back a cry as she saw the small blob of blood vanish into the painting with a quick sucking sound. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Writing’s like painting. You have to write about yourself before you can write about anything else.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She felt raw, a painting that wasn’t dry yet. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She recycles everything, including canvases, sometimes painting over one piece to create a new one. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Will went in, holding his clipboard as if he were working, and sat down in a gallery hung with paintings. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a minute to calm down, and then I set the brush on the palette, move the unfinished painting to the floor, and open up a blank page in my sketchbook. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Osh went straight to his easel, where he’d been working on a painting of Mouse curled up in a lightship basket, her tail hanging over the rim. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A very rare white Bengal tiger, with icy-blue eyeballs, crept out from behind a wall of bookshelves and stalked into the open area where Audubon sat painting his bird portrait. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was pretending to be a painting again. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much, mostly parts for the Prospector and a couple of chairs and Mom’s oil paintings and art supplies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How about paintings? All you have to do is look.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the angel and when I’m finished wishing my second wish—you always get three wishes, right?—I join Grandma in front of the painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Her paintings feel organic to me, like breathing abstractions of color. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why is it less important than painting? Or sculpting?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was why he also said nothing when she took the paintings from the walls and the antique carpets to sell them to the nouveaux riches. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day he’s out painting in the fields when he is summoned home. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jamie and the remaining scribes are painting the story of our queen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They look like if you walk up to the paintings and say hello, they will say hi back to you. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I give up on the idea of sleeping and decide to rescue my painting before anyone else wakes up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We meet at the front of the room, and I lean the painting up on the chalkboard. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At first I didn’t want to wear any, but now that she’s finished painting my face, I have to admit, I really like it. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She asked herself where she would leave the painting if she were the thief and were trying to escape from Hyde Park unnoticed. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

My slave-ship painting is due tomorrow, and I complete it as best I can. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In secular paintings, however, the vanishing point had to be kept under control, for the human world is finite and limited. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A large painting of horses jumping over a high hedge hung on the third wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the back page, there's a painting of an outdoor cafe, tables and chairs set out on what looks to be a summer evening. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The buildings had always seemed more impressive because they were the only buildings to receive regular paintings; usually, the nearby houses and cabins were left untouched to become the dull grained gray of weathered wood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am thinking of how all the paintings in Lagos always look crooked, never hung straight,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m a few months short of a high school degree, but I have a portfolio of landscapes now, both virtual and painted, and I’m going to make a business out of painting wealthy people’s houses. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even Zillah’s gauzy constructions appear to me to have a confidence and subtlety, an assurance, that my own paintings lack: in this context my pictures are too highly finished, too decorative, too merely pretty. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He will give one of the sunflower paintings to Gauguin, per his request. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For instance, two paintings, both of women, one on either side of the fireplace. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d loved her home so much, always had some project underway—wallpapering, painting, refinishing furniture. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched her pass through the living room and the dining room—the rugs unraveling and the table splintering and the paintings on the walls turning to dust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Just a project I started in my after-school drawing club, which turned into a small canvas painting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to paint still lifes. I don’t like still lifes. I hate painting plums. Plums are dumb.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s an acronym for a painting, my mother’s favorite, my destiny.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

His name is Kandinsky, and the shapes he uses in his paintings look a lot like the ones I see when I hear noises. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Jon has given up his eye- damaging geometrical shapes and is painting pictures that look like commercial illustrations: huge Popsicles, giant salt and pepper shakers, peach halves in syrup, paper dishes overflowing with french fries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A painting to go over the living-room couch.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The person in that painting would have fought back in the showers, he would have told the police who had attacked him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The vast paintings churned and swayed in time with the music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I imagine it, imagine all the paintings bursting out of my skull at impact. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His cough moves through the air back into our room where the light is almost blue, the white winter sun painting it. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

His paintings were gorgeous abstract masterpieces, and people were comparing him to the masters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There was supposed to be live music, face painting, games, and even a rock-climbing wall. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried my best to focus on my painting, but all I could see was red. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Before he leaves, he decorates the apartment with art—Japanese prints and his own paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I see the painting of a vase filled with sunflowers, some in full bloom and some wilting. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That’s my dream — to be an artist and have people gasp when they see my paintings, like I do on the first day of each new month. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he isn’t selling anything yet, Vincent and Theo trade his paintings for paintings by other artists, some of them more established. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I paint anyway, because I'm running out of time, and because I'm painting the girl today, lingering in the shadows. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I pause in my sweeping and sit down beside him on the sofa, listening to his words slip out, soft and thoughtful, painting pictures of temples and pyramids. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oddly enough, the question has never been raised; yet surely the differences between the two paintings cannot be accidental. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took off his painting gloves and tossed them onto a table. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Shadows bloomed across the walls and multiplied in the stairwells, and as the light died it got bluer, painting everything around me a deep-sea cobalt. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Gauguin is quite ambitious, and he has agreed to make Theo his sole art representative, sending him at least twenty paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When we’re done, Mrs. Morris asks us to talk about the painting. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I do a little painting, but my real vocation is teaching promising young people like Mr. Costello here.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Cabarets plywood-paneled walls are hung with deer antlers, Old Milwaukee beer promos, and mawkish paintings of game birds taking flight. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid my painting in at the place where Audubon’s tern was missing. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Leaving the painting on the front seat, Petra leaped out anyway. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

You kind of had to stare at it for a while, though, to figure out what she was painting; looked like a doe in autumn woods. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Harry went through the door out of the Great Hall and found himself in a smaller room, lined with paintings of witches and wizards. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They let the other dancers, the swirling paintings, the whole spinning city around them fade into a colorful blur. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the wall hung a painting of a fox hunt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When Hiroshi gets a call about one of his paintings, I slip away to give him some privacy and find an empty chair in the back corner of the café. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sun was already painting colors low in the sky. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“So much was promised to us when we left our island,” he said softly as he looked at the painting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hiroshi doesn't stop smiling when he sees the clothing ideas for my painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was so eager, captivated by all the old paintings, staring at them for days until they confessed their secrets to me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reilly tells me that I need to practice painting the atmosphere of Earth itself. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The famous rock paintings in Chauvet, France, made by cave- dwelling people of the Upper Palaeolithic period, or European Ice Age, are 32,000 years old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Easy,” said Fred, “concealed door behind a painting of a bowl of fruit. Just tickle the pear, and it giggles and —” He stopped and looked suspiciously at her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fresh flowers jutted from a vase and paintings of farmland hung on the walls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a giant painting in Arabic script across from the doorway. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This new style of painting was called still life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had probably saved her life by distracting Old Fred while she ran with the painting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the calendar there is a postcard of a Duchamp painting he has always loved, of a chocolate grinder that reminds him of a set of drums, suspended against a gray background. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his home he hung Nazi flags in prominent locations and displayed airplane models of Messerschmitts and Junkers as well as an oil painting of Adolf Hitler and other memorabilia from the Third Reich. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Theo likes some of Vincent’s paintings well enough to take them back to Paris: oil paintings of peasant women and a still life of flowers in a vase. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I remember all those mediaeval paintings, the hand raised, open to show there is no weapon: Go in peace. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was an Italian architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, who first demonstrated the power of an infinite zero: he created a realistic painting by using a vanishing point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In painting after painting, she pieced together the stages of all these strange lives. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She walked through the halls of the British Museum for a couple of hours, learning the names of paintings and drinking a series of Diet Cokes from small bottles. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He’s probably making a sculpture of her in his head, like I do with paintings. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Right there in Mrs. Castro’s painting studio, she grabbed a pencil and a piece of drawing paper and sketched it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The way an art lover would look at a painting in a museum. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years he’d learned every trade he could get close to—fishing, ship rigging, painting, framing, masonry, plumbing, roofing, tile work, even auto repair. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then they come into the mall and buy my paintings. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean you dreamed that painting?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was decorated with fine paintings, elegant furniture, and carpets. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were colorful windows and unusual paintings on the wall. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A series of doors were punctuated by brightly colored abstract paintings. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She spent all day working on oil paintings, watercolors, charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink sketches, clay and wire sculptures, silk screens, and wood blocks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They accused him of telling paranoid lies and of stealing paintings from the National Museum to hang in his mistress’s bedroom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What a beautiful room you have here," I said, looking across the rich cherry glow of furniture to see a life-sized painting of a nude, a pink Renoir. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the elegant sort of curved nose you saw in statues and paintings, and his nostrils were perfectly proportioned. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was working on a painting and he’d gotten a job at the drugstore in Kern Place. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ignatius lumbered over to the picket fence, abandoning the hopeless cause espoused by the wagon, and viewed the oil paintings and pastels and watercolors strung there. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m getting better and better at painting illusions by hand. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I want to leave something behind for people to remember me by. The way kings do. Or the cave painting people.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I will make this painting the truest painting I’ve ever done. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I step away from the painting to show I’m done speaking. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Beneath the Cross was a painting of a black man hanged from a tree. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon is high tonight and casts a pale silver over the landscape, painting it in shadows and light. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I kick the paintings as petulantly as the girl kicked her dinner. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The segment opened with a genteel docent standing before a Rembrandt painting and addressing a group of unshaven men dressed in ragged clothing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

An old cartoon captioned “The PhD thesis” shows a little boy firing an arrow into the air, seeing where it lands, walking over to it, and painting a target around that spot. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It looked like a painting, the ridges of brown earth, the tepees of dark green tomato plants with their bright red fruits, the bent figures of the pickers and the blue sky overhead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, believe me, Michelangelo would definitely not be painting bakeries.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d made a fresh supply and was painting again, which was the thing that finally convinced me we’d seen the last of Mr. Kendall. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes left the painting and looked at the floor. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A painting of the pastor hung above the chairs, and I could’ve sworn he was watching me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She had not set off any alarm bells when Zeitoun had provided an estimate and begun work on painting her stairway and guest bedroom. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe it's all of this remembering or talking about books and paintings again or being with Mabel, but I can feel the ghost of me creeping back. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Before long, everyone in the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg— the men out there scouring the continent for hidden libraries, concealed prayer scrolls, closeted impressionist paintings—will be handed rifles and sent into the fire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I'd put the script aside and was sitting at my desk painting the kitchen scene from Anne of Green Gables in my diorama. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In those paintings, angels cluster around the living and the dead who sit peaceably on thrones, making signs with their hands. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly everyone from sports stars to taxi drivers felt entitled to share their thoughts on which work was a “real” Vermeer painting and which wasn’t. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Back then Vincent was not yet painting the way Theo wanted him to, with the color they both knew he had in him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His guardian gave in and allowed a sketching and painting trip to Ireland instead. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There have been endless attempts to reconstruct exactly what Brunelleschi did, and why, for contemporaries were clear that this little object represented the birth of perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I walk over to where my few belongings have been delivered and placed by my bed, then take out my Christmas ornament and Dad’s painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Standing on platforms, they were painting the webs and cords sage green. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Millions of visitors go to the Van Gogh Museum every year to see Vincent's paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The fact of the painting itself, it seemed to him, was an answer—a defiance of the world’s darkest forces. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Painter Chen," the magistrate said, "I commend you on your work on my son’s project. The paintings in the Long Walkway are beautiful to behold." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Over the weekend I work on the Ibo slave-ship painting and try to catch up on some homework. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The oil painting was a picture of the whole town fighting on Broad Street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Made of stone. And there’s stone all above us. Someone’s made a painting on the wall.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, one of Mom’s oil paintings came flying through an upstairs window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

These independent artists will hold their first exhibition in 1874, and eventually they will be called Impressionists, after Claude Monet’s painting Impression, Sunrise. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“The horizon is halfway up the painting,” I said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The painting was a pool of moonlight in the center of the room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“That was the best painting class ever,” I told Lalitha when it was time for me to leave. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There is a large painting of a flamingo right as you walk in. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was strange seeing Mrs. Baylor's son not in his painting clothes but in an actual suit, and Lily acting as if she'd known him all her life. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The first pedestal holds a painting of a giant sea dragon crushing a large wooden ship. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The picture she was attacking was a painting of me standing over the giant Antaeus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He gives this painting more colors: blues and greens, browns and whites, orange. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But when I glance at my fantasy paintings, they no longer look like any place I want to be. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I saw them on the sunroof, yawning and painting their nails and trying to keep up their Bermuda tans, and they seemed bored as hell. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“When I engulfed you, your heart spoke out and caused the sands around you to move and shift. This sand painting reveals your inner being. Now I can assess.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He sent more painters to the house, and she continued to add rooms and jobs—including re-tiling and painting a bathroom—and Zeitoun’s men continued to execute the work quickly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big painting on a canvas, actually, but clearly a glass girl was at the center. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A huge crater now lives in the wall, like an abstract painting. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The great Dutch painter Jan Vermeer has been called the Sphinx of Delft, for all his paintings have a degree of mystery. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Masaccio’s Holy Trinity, 1425, in Santa Maria Novella in Florence, is the earliest rigorous perspective painting to survive, and is evidently dependent on Brunelleschi’s studies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I need a day in pajamas, eating ice cream from the carton, painting my toenails, and enjoying TrashTV. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

People devoured the samosas, and dutifully admired the freshly painted ceilings and walls, the hanging plants, the bay windows, the silk paintings from Jaipur. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What is that? Have you all converted to heathen ways? What are you doing with that painting? Where did you get it?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had paintings of merpeople on it; they were carrying spears and chasing what looked like the giant squid. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

One: At an early age my sister Gretchen exhibited a remarkable talent for drawing and painting. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Except for where the paintings hung, the walls of the study were completely covered with stuffed and mounted heads of every imaginable type of beast—from tiny rabbits to a massive, antlered elk. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Collins’s apartment was stocked with hundreds of chess books, chess paintings and statues, and furniture and draperies decorated with chess figures; it was a virtual chess museum. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the nine weeks he’s been in Auvers, he’s made seventy paintings and thirty drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But the arrangement is about the work, and Vincent still hopes Gauguin’s influence will improve his painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Zola is right: Some are women and some are babies, and it is a puzzlement because never I see these angels in real, only in stone and in paintings. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You know what my pentomino just said? Fooled. If she wasn’t so old, I’d wonder if she had something to do with the painting disappearing.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Someday, I'm going to travel to Paris and go to the Louvre and stare at that painting all day long. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The only thing on it was a painting of a dark brown girl sitting at a piano, her back to me, her arms spread across the keys. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Vincent has made at least a dozen paintings of sunflowers: sunflowers in a vase, sunflowers on a table, sunflowers alone and with other flowers, sunflowers in full bloom and halfway to death. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That ugly painting above my bed was just so cruel. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Etta was sitting in the chair by the window, painting her toenails with the red polish. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I real sorry about the painting. Wasn’t supposed to happen.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In the process of collecting, painting, and frantically making notes, Maria began to feel dizzy and exhausted. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Bad thing—Mom, I saw the new art in the hall on the second floor, and I need to know why you allowed a George W. Bush terrier painting in our home.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hornet called, looking closely at the painting above the counter. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But really, I wouldn’t have minded so much painting “Gypsy” on the window. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Looking at Vincent's paintings, he tells Jo, “One first has to relinquish all ones conventional ideas in order to grasp what he means. But one day he will be understood. When? That is the question.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But the first letters looked like Kr, and Joseph wondered if this was the same ship that had sunk in the painting downstairs. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In this unfamiliar setting Vincent has to learn about art and how to sell it—prints, paintings, reproductions, old art, newer art, art of different styles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That’s who was in charge of sawing the holes in the plywood and painting it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But there was yet another layer underneath, or perhaps it was some kind of mural, or a large painting. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“So this place,” I said, pointing to Horace’s ash painting on the wall. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He looked like those paintings of baby angels— what do you call them, hubbubs? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were no paintings on the walls, but the Pastors had taped up pictures of smartly dressed women torn from Sears Roebuck catalogs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a Monet painting hanging outside my bedroom door and a bronze Degas sculpture in our dining room. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“No sculpture, no carving or bas-relief, almost no painting or drawing—the interiors are completely bare. What we do see are these huge mounds—and textiles.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was, but like his music, I found his paintings evocative, endearing, and curious. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Evidently, only paintings are allowed to be colorful. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My final possession is one of my dad’s old paintings, the only one I have left, propped carefully beside the mattress. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the finished painting in my head, the girl will finally know this. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Seth could be a pest, but now that he had become immersed in his painting, she was starting to miss him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A torn painting hung on one wall: a clipper ship, maybe even this one, painted from high up, looking down on the deck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gauguin is taken aback by what he sees as Vincent’s disorderliness, both in painting and in life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman: “Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decided this? Does algebra move you to tears?” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t into drawing or painting, at least not in the traditional sense. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

While I watch the movie, I try to come up with a new hiding place for my paintings. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The painting is how she described it, but there's also more. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Seth stood near Dad clutching his painting of the dragon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while an inexperienced potter would try his hand at painting his pieces, but the more accomplished potters, Min and Kang among them, had long ago given up trying the technique. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The old man’s eyes traveled to the painting of the girl over the mantelpiece. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My painting skills aren’t exactly the finest, but I can manage large simple pictures. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He sees beautiful paintings at the Louvre, at the Musee du Luxembourg, and at the Salon, the French Academy’s annual exhibition of “living masters” of the current art world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A plasterer who had been in his rooms reported them furnished with statues, oil paintings, and white fur rugs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put in my name, my e-mail address, my age, and my type of synesthesia, and in the interests and hobbies section, I write “painting, music, being outdoors, and my cat.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The tables were set with more knives, forks and goblets than I’d ever seen; the paintings on the wall seemed ghostly in the candlelight. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I knew the painting was by Caravaggio but I remembered only the surname and even that I couldn’t spell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The glass is completely clear, so that I can see part of a room beyond it, along with large paintings of Warcross worlds on the walls and a long meeting table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While others were seeing the emotion, the expression, in Vincent’s painting just as he had hoped, his friend was seeing only the flaws. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It might have been a painting instead of a real place. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hands in my pant pockets and walked around, admiring the stained-glass windows and the paintings on the warm wooden walls. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It turns out that, in high school, not painting your toenails is considered disgusting. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She daubed the ointment onto the wound, picked up his hand, and examined the spidery black knots as if they were a work of art—a painting, a sculpture. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

From a year when I was six years old and there were records of Harry Lauder, and Maxfield Parrish paintings still hanging, and bead curtains, and “Beautiful Ohio,” and turn-of-the-century architecture. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, me too. I guess I didn’t figure we’d be painting the house as a root lesson.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not talking about painting the Mona Lisa or curing cancer. I’m just talking about moving that one grain of sand one millimeter.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, painting itself is a hangover from the European past. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Interviewed later, one of the men conceded that the painting was nice, saying, "Sure, I liked it okay." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She also finally had time to sort through her jumble of insect notes and paintings from years of flower and caterpillar investigations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to figure out what I want the woman in my painting to wear. I’m adding all the details onto her dress tomorrow.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m lying on the bed staring at a print on the ceiling of Munch’s The Scream, an off-the-hook painting I wish I made of a guy blowing a gasket. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Masaccio’s patrons, who had paid for his painting, appear on either side, kneeling. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I tell him he needs to bring me the slave-ship painting from my room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The stolen painting was probably in Switzerland or Brazil or Japan. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like a painting, she thought, a Saint wrought in gold leaf on the walls of a church, born to wield a sword of fire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time any Impressionist paintings are shown in the Netherlands. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We’ll worry about the written part if you make a model of the ship. Or a painting even!” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s like the paintings in the museum,” she said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Think about a painting hanging on a wall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I would like to commission you to create a painting for my own palace." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And it was as such that he was approached for a painting by a powerful magistrate. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

After a whole year, the painting is now finished. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His mop moves across the empty food court like a giant brush, painting a picture no one will ever see. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I call up images of my other paintings. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each time I closed my eyes, I saw the painting of The Scream in my head, but the face was my face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was January now, and already he dreaded to think of the time when spring would come, and he would have to leave them all day and go back to painting houses. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each of them is painting a picture, each picture is on an easel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Squads of volunteers, organized by Parsons, were preparing the street for Hate Week, stitching banners, painting posters, erecting flagstaff's on the roofs, and perilously slinging wires across the street for the reception of streamers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Here, geometry, perspective painting and cartography merge into one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"It was the most beautiful painting," my mother told me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ve always believed emotion is good for painting, but I'm afraid I'm not in the best mood to create anything today.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The two men painted side by side and talked about art, including Impressionist painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I didn't think I was going to be so long, but I had to start over with my painting.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bright paintings and drawings decorated the walls, and clay sculptures stood along the back of the room. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Nathan practically had to carry Pond to the center of the sand painting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were real paintings on the wall and a rug on the floor. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He can feel what Vincent was thinking about nature and people by looking at his paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They had taken their money, their statuary and their gloomy oil paintings and had come to America and settled in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kazi brought a piece of one of your paintings, just a folded square of canvas ripped from its frame, the paint chipped. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But Pinmei stood still, curiously studying Lady Meng, who, against the whiteness of snow and ice, looked like a painting come to life. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

At least half of the paintings are of trees in blossom. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A red sun rose and set and rose again, painting the snows in shades of rose and pink. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Notice all of the white space in the painting, and its minimalist nature. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mom said the art deco murals at Rockefeller Center were disappointing, not nearly as good as some of her own paintings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the painting, a dart fell off my face. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I feel like a speck of dust on a beautiful painting. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I feel my face flush—not because of the giant bamboo utensils and huge painting of Jesus’s Last Supper hanging in the dining room, but because Lola’s grinning at him. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was going to be my last night of freedom for a long time—I should have gone out with my friends or spent time with Viviana—but I spent the whole night painting. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Arm saw paintings of huts, fields and people. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her favorite, a birthday gift from Gogol, features paintings that hang in the Museum of Modem Art. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But painting portraits is the thing that moves him most deeply, that gives him “a sense of the infinite.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Does that make it more or less valuable than the painting?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She was drawing with felt pens at her own little table in the corner, where her paintings were taped up next to the refrigerator. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted her blood to splash the paintings, soak the wall and the wooden stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon is no longer painting on canvas, or on anything flat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They danced through the room, painting stained-glass pictures, tickling the skin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Since the beginning of time, the Oxford English Dictionary has defined ‘still life’ as a painting of some stuff, fruit or what have you. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I touch her lips, painting them to look like a flower in bloom. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When my wife, Marie, and I were vacationing in Australia one summer, we decided to visit a site with well-preserved Aboriginal rock paintings in the desert near the town of Menindee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what I want to do with my paintings, find a unique language, obliterate the cliches. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet he’s going to be mad that we’re interrupting his painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to explain the way I feel when I see a beautiful painting. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I thought it was one of those advertisements for painting your house or cleaning your carpets. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There is a crucifix mounted on the wall, a flag of a cross draped over the lectern, and a few paintings of the Madonna and Child hanging in the back. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words “Neah Bay, WA” curve across its top, along with a painting of the lighthouse. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One boy had asked for face paintings on both cheeks, both arms, and his stomach. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The wizened witch who had flitted into her neighbor’s painting when he had joined the champions downstairs was now sitting smugly beside the Fat Lady. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When he’s not painting, he furnishes the house. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You can hit a baseball so high that God can catch it without stooping. You don’t have to be fast at painting shutters.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Inside the brochure are more words and more paintings. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in a painting, negative space is intentional; sometimes it is an accident of composition. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mann’s hands are folded in her lap, and she quietly waits for a response, the tranquil painting of the mountains behind her seemingly waiting, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She finished painting her nails, then stood up. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

These paintings will speak to you as they have to me. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know anything about the key, so the paintings meant nothing to me, even if I knew they were famous. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My paintings have been getting more and more abstract lately, violent-looking with clotted swirls of red. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Bitter three more weeks to finish the painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They are beginning to suspect that perhaps there is something to it, but Lies and the rest of the family renounce their claims to Vincent's paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The boring old men in the paintings that line the walls remain stiff and unsmiling—sorta how a part of me feels. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Some people inherit houses; others paintings or highly insured violin bows. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In June, Theo buys ten paintings by Claude Monet and shows them at his Montmartre gallery, on the entresol floor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I want to see your paintings,” he says. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You want to hear my list? Take a painting class with Bob Ross. Lots of happy little trees and cadmium yellow that you don’t think will work but then...” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Over the next two months the eminent photographer encouraged the boy's uneven but promising efforts at painting and block printing, and permitted Ruess to hang around his studio with his own sons, Neil and Cole. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was reddening the western sky and painting scarlet shadows on the golden skulls atop their spears when they took their leave of the captain-general’s tent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was getting dark outside, and the lighted interior looked like a painting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of them is telling the others that his favorite painting is The Night Watch. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The vuvv reaches up with a limb and flips through images of my paintings of castles, mountains, and walled towns. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t get it out of my head, what he told me that night when I asked him what he’d done with all his attempts at painting. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It felt like someone was painting his back and ribs with stripes of gasoline and chili pepper and setting them ablaze. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In his mind, Hugo suddenly saw the painting in the Film Academy library. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“And we could reserve space to sell paintings, and combs, and fripperies from France.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Was that Effie again? Never trust an ugly woman. She’s got a grudge against the world,” said Grandma, who was no oil painting herself. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oil paintings decorated the walls of the ballroom. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He felt they made his paintings look more alive. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the rain of generations had poured upon this painting until now there was only a faint feathery shadow of bamboos left, and the hills were almost wholly gone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk rubbish! Is it not your painting that’s standing here in our bedroom? And you’re opening your mouth to tell me you don’t know how this happened! Are you serious?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He must remember the way the house smelled when you were in it, the sound of your voice filling the air, the sight of you painting your pictures. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in the shade of the house, painting a picture of storm clouds and a small boat beneath. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

At the dinner table she argues with them about books and paintings and people they know in common the way one might argue with a friend. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas color is an adjunct element to graphics and sometimes sculpture, it is indispensable to virtually all forms of painting. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had inherited the furniture from Coraline’s grandmother, along with a wooden coffee table, a side table, a heavy glass ashtray, and the oil painting of a bowl of fruit. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The top part of the painting, where the sky would have been, was covered in burnished silver. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to write up evaluations of her students’ progress, but she’d spent every free minute painting, and now the deadline was on her and the evaluations were unwritten. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer clambered back into the main passage and made his way past a sitting room full of fallen paintings and shattered statuary. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to search his eyes to know what he knew, how he had found out about the painting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Until two days ago, my father’s paintings had covered it entirely, gifts from friends and artists. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I look at my favorite paintings again—The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso, the Cybernetic Lobster Telephone by Salvador Dalí, and the one made of dots by Georges Seurat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I tell him it’s urgent and that my brother will be coming to the meeting too with a painting portfolio that will blow his mind. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He tells Vincent that he’d seen a painting that Claude Monet “had made of sunflowers in a large Japanese vase, very fine.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They don’t mind braiding hair, painting nails, while I sit one step behind them, drawing maps, studying mazes. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

At night she don’t look much worse than the last time she was hauled out for painting, more than a year ago. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the smooth walls were several paintings whose nature he tried to make out, but failed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Theo leaves, Vincent buys new brushes, a watercolor box that he will use when painting outside, watercolors, and oil paints. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Stuck in the attic or not, he was sick of painting. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The vision bursts in front of me; I never know what I'm painting till I start. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I mean, I have never seen such beautiful paintings and magnificent sculptures. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hated thinking about Jackie getting on that bus to Raleigh, going back to her happy life, painting her fingernails with Carol Lee, dating Scooter the paintball champion, maybe even going to beauty school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Let’s find out more about the painting in your dream,” he went on. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s leaning against the wall by the painting of the kiss, his arms crossed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunuch in the background standing guard. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not just that. What else? Think like an artist. Think of everything in the painting, not just the birds.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I will never use your name and no one who lives in this village will ever see these paintings.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I push the door open, though, and instead of looking at the paintings, I search the floor until I find what I’m looking for. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A good painting would not only capture the old man’s features but also his moods and personality. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Like my painting of the Statue of Liberty that caused such a commotion at the Yankee Doodle Bakery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inside would have been a wealth of carvings, soaring domes, and paintings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had been painting, I said, since early childhood, but that, following the advice of Pablo Picasso, who was one of the oldest and dearest friends of my parents, I had never exhibited. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I still was not sure if he knew about the painting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As objects recede into the distance in the painting, they get closer and closer to the vanishing point, getting more compressed as they get farther away from the viewer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In most cases, however, her paintings are so precise and lifelike that even today they could be used as a field guide to European and Surinamese insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She put down the painting she had been about to hang up, and hurried over. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A number of things had to happen before the painting was safe—if it was the painting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

As for my mother, she was tranquilized, and remembers only that the pressure in her eyes made Father Mike’s face appear oddly elongated, like a priest in a painting by El Greco. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Spent a day walking through art galleries and bought paintings to cover the empty spaces on our walls. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Reilly liked them. I discovered that by painting the house face-on, instead of at an angle, I can create this really cool feeling of desolation and vacancy.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he finally was convinced he had interested us in astronomy, Dad started a new series of wall paintings dealings with stars. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We start to talk about sending the paintings to the contest, and Mr. Reilly searches for the address and reads it out to me as I Magic Marker it onto the box. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"This painting is a masterpiece!" a voice said in surprise. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He said he was mostly interested in the satiric rather than the arty side of painting. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Vincent remains exemplary in nursing and is also working with the greatest ambition on drawing and painting.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As if the newer paintings are on the threshold, but not quite in the gallery—yet. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her painting smock, her hair pinned messily in gold barrettes, staring at her latest collage with a paintbrush and a piece of yarn in her hand. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Of the Cro-Magnons’ products that have been preserved, the best known are their artworks: their magnificent cave paintings, statues, and musical instruments, which we still appreciate as art today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They make space for him to store some paintings as well. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He’s part of it all now, headlines and oil paintings and pages in the Library of Congress, etched right alongside. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he's already left for work. He has a painting job off of Adams today.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I could see everything she said as if it were a wall painting inside the cave of my own skull. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One day, when she was at the market, she saw an old man selling a painting of a palatial estate. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dragon was born from a painting, from paintbrushes and inkstones . . . and like an echo, Minli remembered Ma talking about the artist who had come to Fruitless Mountain many years ago. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

But Ginika complained and cried, painting images of a sad, friendless life in a strange America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Long white linen curtains hung at the windows; a large pile of fluffy white towels sat in a corner, and there was a single golden- framed painting on the wall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The girl and her mother made a life in that small house, the girl spending the summer painting the windowsills and doorways a curious shade of blue. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Several closets appeared, walls creaked, but there was no sign of the painting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“In such a painting, do you see how much more tension there would be?” said Mr. Powell. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Holding the painting carefully, he took two steps, then two more. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He pastes uncooked pasta to cardboard, and leaves his signature in fat brush strokes below paintings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel I should admire these paintings, because I’m incapable of painting that way myself, and I do admire them, in monosyllables. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgment day in some old apocalyptic painting. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

How I went around from painting to painting asking each to eat me and each did. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps you can best contribute to animal welfare by learning about their behavior and sharing what you have found out—by speaking, writing, painting. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And didn’t he just say he’d be more than happy to kiss me like in the painting? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She finished about twenty paintings in her studio, cleaned the whole house, and cooked enough soup to last all winter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Just outside playing around that found those paintings on the inside of the caves. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In a painting dark with smoky grime, a naked Adam and Eve turned from the avenging angel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My silence was thickest—total—during the three years that I covered my school paintings with black paint. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I steady the painting and unlock the door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In early perspective paintings the vanishing point is often hidden by a seemingly casually placed foot or a bit of drapery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He has to get up before dawn to be painting by 6:30 a.m. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It lay on a bedside table inside a French painting by an artist named Auguste Bernard. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I introduced Zion to Josephine and Henry, shot a rubber snake at the shooting range, and even stuck my face through a wooden painting of a cactus so Zion could take a picture. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The last painting is a dark sky filled with stars over a quiet village. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Dud gives him a leg up onto a red London mailbox, and the Devil sets about painting a mental picture—the technique known as enargia. devil: I’m God. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I decide to call home after I’m finished painting at the studio. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Let’s see—I’ve got to visualize a museum . . . and rooms . . . and lovely paintings. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Traft’s help in the field had brought up a memory of me and Charlie painting half the fences in Arlington that one summer. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had his easel set up, and he was painting a picture of her house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That painting in the hallway of his studio. The one of the kiss, I just saw it for a second, but I think Mom made it.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They would stare into blue and green paintings by Monet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Mr. Keillor say there are paintings on a wall in a cave. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

My Christmas ornament and Dad’s painting had been destroyed, but just because they were destroyed doesn’t mean some traces of them, however small and broken, weren’t left behind. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He's filling a void I never knew was there, with his stories and his family and his paintings and the kindness he never seems to run out of. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On our classroom wall, my teacher hung a calendar with Frida’s odd paintings. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

They should always share their opinions about the paintings and drawings they see, he writes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jamie stares at the painting for so long that I think the room actually starts to get darker. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They move to Florida, where a cousin of Lourdes’s boyfriend gets everyone painting jobs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Julia goes to the edge of the ring, careful not to step on any of my paintings. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Abuela asked from the other side of the room as Aunt Tuti flailed her arms around like she was painting the air. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He makes room next to his paintings, his railroad cars, and his violin and mandolin and mandola. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is Theo’s role to help Vincent’s paintings sell, and therefore to tell him how to improve so they will sell. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mom must have told him about my paintings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when he was busiest smoothing down the paste on the wallpaper, or painting the outside of other people’s houses, he would forget what he was doing. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

We went into a room down the hall where paintings and photos covered the walls so completely, there was barely an inch of wallpaper exposed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was the central clown in an unconscious travesty of that famous oil painting, “The Spirit of ’76.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph looked again at the elegant woman in the painting above the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For a solid week, ever since the pep rally, I’ve been painting watercolors of trees that have been hit by lightning. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But a man is walking into the center of the painting with one hand upraised. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Again the obvious explanation would seem to be that the painting is some kind of memorial—perhaps he is dead, perhaps he has gone away. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

People were looking at and talking about paintings as they never had before. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was painting her nails and messing them pretty badly when William went in and he knew she was bagged and Dora wouldn’t let a bagged girl work. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For after 1765 Copley freely adapted and combined motifs from different prints in his paintings, often disguising their origins so completely that we cannot be certain which they were. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dipping a large, broomlike brush into a pail and painting the asphalt with black sealer. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She and Zeitoun spoke on the phone throughout every day, about everything—painting, the rental properties, things to fix and do and pick up, often just to say hello. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the room, standing in front of one of Gram’s river paintings, I glimpse Professor Swann, who used to teach in town at Hampstead College. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When he finishes the painting for the baby, he is truly pleased with it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I hope Mr. Grady gives the paintings I left in the art room to Mom. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They went to look at Bitter’s unfinished painting, and Aloe could feel the thickness of it the same way Jam had. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The other day, he left one of his paintings out on Mr. Ward’s desk where anybody could see it. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was excited to get started because I loved painting. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I like painting. I like the rhythm of it,” he told me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When she looked down at the painting, the smoke in the background was moving, churning and swirling. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I knew Papa kept her paintings in the corner of his study behind a wooden rocking chair. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The grounds were graced with raised beds of mixed bouquets, and the full perimeter of the property was edged with azaleas, which fit the house like a gilded frame fits a beautiful painting. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But Theo happily reports to Vincent that the crates from Arles have arrived, and there are some superb paintings in it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Gauguin writes back, asking Vincent for one of his paintings—sunflowers on a yellow background, “which I regard as a perfect page of an essential ‘Vincent' style.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mom kept working on her painting in the kitchen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And while form is introduced with sculpture, it is just as essential to painting, drawing, and architecture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the painting looked inquiringly at the Prime Minister. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The dress’s skirt, which resembled a tutu from one of Degas’s paintings, was ruined. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would forget to wipe his hands during his painting sessions and end up leaving colorful fingerprints all over the place. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the bottom they turned sharply, almost colliding with a woman painting at an easel, and kept running until they found themselves on a quiet residential street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A black Santa oil painting hung above the mantel, which was itself lined with black Santa figurines. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The light through the windows had a smoky haze to it, giving the entire room a soft edge that reminded Joseph of a painting. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When a concerned company worker complained of the leaks, the company addressed the problem by painting the tank brown so the leaks wouldn’t be easily noticed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

An oil painting of a raven clawing its way out of a young boy’s chest caught my attention. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the wall opposite the painting and began in a businesslike way to take notes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had read in the morning paper that a ladies’ art guild was having a hanging of its paintings in Pirate’s Alley. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean if he were a girl—somebody in my dorm, for example—he’d have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

This was where the finest paintings in the house were kept, for Esteban Trueba had made this his refuge, his office, his sanctuary, and he liked to have his most cherished objects close beside him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hope you ain’t too sick of painting to want to get that done and ready for flying.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was everywhere: torches and laughter and shattering glass and painters painting windows. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The peculiar feature of his peep-show construction, that the viewer is looking at himself as well as at the painting, simply recapitulates this earlier tension. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Today’s her day off from the store, and I bet she’s looking forward to spending the day alone painting. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He moved closer to the fire and stared up at the man in the painting above the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He has forgotten to bring a book to read and so he picks up a discarded section of the Globe, skimming an article in the “Arts” section about Andrew Wyeth’s Helga paintings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Alberti is perfectly clear that the image in a one-point-perspective painting extends ‘to an almost infinite distance’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After that visit Dries wrote to his parents that the paintings of Delacroix were “an inexhaustible topic of discussion” for him and Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The entry doors are made of wrought iron and glass, and just past them, marble columns and impressive oil paintings of bearded white men line the hallways. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Heavy draperies with brocade and tassels hang on the windows and separate the rooms; paintings in gilded frames hang close together on the walls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Edward pulled me toward the far left side, standing me in front of a small square oil painting in a plain wooden frame. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He thinks he will be happy painting there. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was hungry, Mom was at work on a painting, and no one else was there to fix them for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted in flam-boyant colors: hibiscus pink, lilac, pistachio, and are crowded with clusters of paintings and drawings and photographs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Annie pointed down to the base of one of the walls, and there, beneath a big red word that spelled out someday, in interlocking letters, was a painting of two overlapping black circles. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I head to my room when they all start painting each other's toenails. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother was painting when Jam came in, so the studio was full of loud music, old-school grime this time, the energy thumping against the light and Stormzy’s voice whipping around Bitter’s flying braids. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“No,” he insists, pressing his hands over my shoulders and leading me to my almost-finished painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I say vague things about how we humans painted landscapes sometimes, too, and that I’m painting the world I want to live in: a world of adventure but also of ancient beauty. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why they made him look so creepy in that painting. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“No, why are you here? Why are you in my house? Why did you come out of Bitter’s painting? How am I supposed to keep my parents from finding out about you?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The man—the painting, rather—looked downright afraid. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the wall above the mantel, presiding over everything, was an old painting, in an ornate gold frame, of a dark-eyed man. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Lacy lamps, pottery milkmaids, and paintings of African grasslands you buy on the stairs at Littlewoods, if you really want to. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was a kid’s painting with blobs of green paint for leaves and the sun a yellow circle with lines coming out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the painting would start coming to life like in 1408 and Drew and I could team up to face the haunted room. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She avoided Greenwich Village, she said, because there, instead of painting, she would be spending all her time in bars and coffee shops. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a paintbrush painting the world a blurry brushstroke. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The young Mao in the painting wore a long cotton gown and cloth shoes, and he carried an umbrella under his arm. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t a painting I suddenly don’t want to tell this oak tree about in great detail. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Zero appeared in the middle of every Renaissance painting, and a cardinal declared that the universe was infinite—boundless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I need my paintings to say something else entirely. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On its surface are arranged, seemingly at random, several bright pink objects not unlike those to be found in abstract paintings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above our heads was one of my mother’s paintings, which covered the restaurant walls, our home, and nowhere else. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She decorated the living room walls with her oil paintings, and soon every square inch was covered, except for the space above her typewriter reserved for index cards. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hiroshi’s paintings are everywhere, all of them with different faces, all of them with unique faces. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He saw a jellyfish in a tide pool, and the swirl of the tentacles reminded him of the swirl of her hair, and then he spent the rest of his life painting pictures of jellyfish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She drives the kids to school and picks them up, and in between she manages the affairs of the painting and contracting company. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

With the furnishing of the house, in addition to his usual painting supplies, Vincent keeps needing more money. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And it was: nearly every inch of the walls was covered with family photos and bright, colorful paintings of people, landscapes, animals—anything and everything. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry to have to tell you this, Agnes, but your farm looks really run-down, like those paintings of barns with the roof falling in. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

As she moved through her days—feeding her family, painting, teaching—she puzzled over what she found. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I don’t say anything, it turns back to the fantasy paintings. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I play with the putty or stare up at the pretty watercolor painting. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Black Jesus hangs from the cross in a painting on the hallway wall, and Malcolm X holds a shotgun in a photograph next to him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And he tells her about the sale in Brussels of his painting The Red Vineyard to an artist, Anna Boch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Above us, stern nuns in crisp whites watched our intrusion from the strokes of a massive oil painting housed in a gilt frame. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The domed ceiling of the enormous hall was covered with delicate hand paintings and Latin phrases written in decorative script. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She watched him for a moment, painting the rigging black, his brush moving quick and sure on the ropes while the shadows shifted along his arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need an appointment to admire the painting, do I?” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He prays this painting will make enough of an impression on Theo and others in Paris that he can begin to sell his work. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At the time she began her insect studies, Maria’s “database” consisted of bookshops where she might browse any rare works about insects, or studio paintings like her stepfather’s that accurately depicted them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Midday light was pouring through the large windows, and Jam could see that her mother had left the painting uncovered, flat on the floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

While in the studio, Maria learned the finer points of vellum, and it became her lifelong favorite for painting precise, richly colored images. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I backed up to adjust the painting so it hung nice and straight. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early April he starts on what will become another series of paintings of blossoming orchards. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I had seen the original painting, the inspiration for my father’s print and Angela’s sketch, and I was pretty sure I’d seen it recently—very recently—but I couldn’t remember where. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Okay, don’t tell me anything,” Mom said, turning back to her painting. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The paintings slid off the wall, now full, three-dimensional spirits in the sky, and disappeared into the night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Lalitha took me by the hand and led me to a shelf full of painting supplies. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Vincent had traded many of his paintings already, and had sold at least one to Julien Tanguy, a paint and art dealer in Paris, whose portrait he painted. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There are several watercolor copies of famous paintings hanging on the walls. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

No paintings have been hung yet and the shelves wait empty and cardboard boxes stand open on the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say it was a painting. I don’t know what it was.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The zero in the center of the painting contains an infinity of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I have a painting to finish and a grandfather to visit. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Darkness said, gesturing to the sand painting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

After he graduated, he and Margaret built their first lab in a janitor’s quarters at Hopkins—they spent weeks wiring, painting, plumbing, building counters and cabinets, paying for much of it with their own money. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The paintings showed a girl of different ages, from newborn to teenager, sometimes alone on the canvas and other times with a woman that looked their mom’s age. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Paul Gauguin started painting when he was a stockbroker in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Kendra crossed the room to the painting she had done of the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Back in the room with the creepy bunny paintings, Annabelle touches the chopped, uneven edges of her hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Richard smelled the saltiness of the air as Kainene led him through wide rooms with tastefully mismatched furniture, wood carvings, muted paintings of landscapes, rounded sculptures. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was Polish, Charlie could hear it in the curve of her voice, but she was also so familiar, like a painting on a wall by an artist whose name he had forgotten. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even now My eyes that hurry to see no more are painting, painting Faces of my lost girl. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paintings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are still entirely figurative; Kandinsky’s first abstract painting did not emerge until 1910. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Pacing back and forth like a ghost haunting a museum, Hiroshi never makes eye contact with any of the people here to appreciate his paintings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have any particular style; some of her paintings were what she called primitive, some were impressionistic and abstract, some were realistic. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each time one of them let me out of his car, I hoped the next would spare me his paintings. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not tell Jaja to stop, or point out that it was his deformed finger that he was running over the painting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The third painting is a pile of books—French novels—on a table. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Nothing around my house needs painting,” Turner said, which was not a lie at all—sort of. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Some were medieval paintings in gilt frames hardly bigger than CD jewel cases; some were rough pencil sketches of Renaissance statues; some were larger-than-life oil paintings. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I think I’d prefer self- immolation, on a stage perhaps, with all my paintings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like yellow paint. Have you been painting anything yellow the last few days?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambi­tion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know because when I have a new painting idea, I always line them up a certain way to get a feel for the color scheme. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t got around to painting herself yet and her face looked like she had polished it with a gun rag. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, those who study Mayan culture are astonished by their art, architecture, sculpture, and painting and their understandings of time and mathematics. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She had been working on the painting ever since Dad took over the mine and we moved into the Captain’s house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But for years she has gathered flowers for her stepfather’s studio, carried them in and arranged them for his still-life paintings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"The thing I most love about it," Mabel says, "is how they're holding hands right at the center of the painting. It's so important. It's what the whole thing's about, I think." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Rick crouched nearby, painting a black line around the edge of a hay bale. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A soldier sat outside the door that opened onto the garden making crosses and painting on them the names, rank, and regiment of the men who were buried in the garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He walks in and studies the painting intently. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Beneath his feet was an enormous sand painting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it takes my breath away, which I didn’t know was a real thing until I stood in front of this painting. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Rays of sun dance through the valley, painting light on the plains even as the floating isles cast patches of shadows; flocks of white birds cry out in formation below us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead I moved closer to Jaja and we stared at the painting, silently, for a very long time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

If Pilar hadn’t put in the safety pin and the bugs in the air, the painting would be almost pretty. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the dome was a painting of an angel, his great white wings spread out across a dazzling sky, as if captured midflight. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was confused by this sudden glare of attention; it was as if the characters in a favorite painting, absorbed in their own concerns, had looked up out of the canvas and spoken to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A painting of Grandmother hung over his bed, with a picture of the farm where he grew up beside it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagining a safe place to hide a small painting, she thought of drawers, cupboards, cabinets, closets, blanket chests....Everything she pictured was wood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He has started sketches and studies for an oil painting he thinks just might be worthwhile. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"I'm tired of selling lemonade. And it's just too hot. I practically had sunstroke yesterday painting all those faces." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The informative paintings and impressive pyramids of the Ancient Egyptians have survived remarkably well, but their music has disappeared completely. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The newspaper photos don’t do these paintings justice, because there’s no color. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. I know what I’m good at, and it ain’t drawing or painting or cutting things up and making something out of them. That’s Jade. I’m the poet.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Vincent thinks he’s talking about Theo, but he's thinking about himself: for him, painting is the answer to his misery, to his lack of confidence, to his feelings of being at sea in the world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They watched films together in her flat, and then in his house in Oniru, where arch paintings hung on his wall. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The painting right in front of me showed five geese flying over a red barn. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There is a famous painting, Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I pushed the door, and froze, because standing in front of an easel, painting, was a slender blonde in pink bra and panties. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not your job, Homer,” she said from the stepladder in front of her painting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to go, Sierra. You finish this painting, you hear me?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jamie looks genuinely curious, even if he does think the paintings are silly. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the America of the 1790s, Washington’s image was everywhere, in paintings, prints, lockets; on coins, silverware, plates, and household bric-a-brac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The walls of the corridor leading into the tomb were covered with dozens of strange paintings depicting enslaved humans, orcs, elves, and other creatures. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She stared at the painting, and a yearning she had never felt before filled her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He tells Theo, “I’m still very much under the impression of what has just happened—I just kept painting these two Sundays.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On the back of the painting, as on the back of many paintings, was a small piece of wire to hang on the hook. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“My dad said it’s made up of so much steel that by the time they finish painting all the way to the end they have to start right back at the beginning again.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The police do not have his gun, or the painting equipment from that day. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Here lies the problem: The great master known as Johannes Vermeer painted, in truth, only twenty-six of the thirty five paintings we now attribute to him. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She writes, “I have found the paintings”—clearly she didn’t have them hanging up—and they are now even dearer to me.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I took painting classes at school and I liked it. It calms me a little. But playing music energizes me. Balance.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It’s easier on the model than posing for a painting, holding the same position for hours at a time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The ants were, together with the New Yorkers, an abstraction, a live mobile, an action painting, a piece of found art, a happening, a parody, depending on the light. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shanti had been setting goals since she was four and won her preschool’s finger painting contest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Bitter finished the painting in the dark morning of a day—it was well past midnight when Jam heard the studio door creak open. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When he is tired from painting, he draws—a series of the wheat harvest. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Staring at the painting, I finally realize what it is. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The first “ paintings” were probably made in caves approximately 15,000 years ago. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

He comes to prefer certain sofas and chairs to others; when he is not there, he can conjure the paintings and photographs arrayed on the walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No, she would sell the painting and contracting business and hold on to the rentals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe Lena would outline a painting for her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Looking at the painting made the squirrel feel warm inside, certain of something. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I can see them glancing at us, the two old ones, how sweet they look under that painting of Bid6. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It never failed; even today, with paintings crying and strangers lurking, the scent of her mom’s chicken and rice eased her mind away from all that trouble, at least for a few seconds. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Most of my mother’s paintings were trompe l’œils—à la Magritte, as she liked to say—in which the subject, person or thing, always seemed to be trying to escape the frame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t impossible, since there were people selling things like old black-and-white photos of random people, rusty screws, paintings and drawings—some were cool and some were lame. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the bottom they turned sharply, almost colliding with a woman painting at an easel, and kept running until they found themselves on a quiet residential street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She takes her seat as she’s told and holds her head so high and proud that she reminds me of the paintings of African queens my mother left hanging on our living room wall. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They found him in a hole leading to a cave covered with thousands of engravings and paintings. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

How can he accuse Vincent of being cavalier in his painting? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Most of them showed people in front of a window; the Geographer’s rug appeared in many of the paintings, and the same yellow jacket turned up in a number of places. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s begun a series of paintings of peasants weaving. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I don't stop thinking about it, even after I finish painting the woman’s dress with burnt orange and crimson and topaz yellow. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I did a painting of the house in early fall, the leaves were just starting to turn. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kay is in front of the mirror, doing her hair and painting her face like we are going someplace other than a department store. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Popping one of the rosebud chocolates in her mouth, Kendra replaced the Journal of Secrets in the nightstand drawer and returned to her painting. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s pretty around here—everything looks like those paintings that are just scenery, with nothing actually happening. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When she returned home, she showed the painting to her son. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He often sends sketches or replicas of his work to friends, and sometimes when he does, he makes the painting a little different from the original, depending on whom he’s sending it to. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I did not finish painting him. He said we would finish it today.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he wants to tell me I can’t come back to finish my painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sit in my chair, frozen, with one hand still hovering over the painting and the other gripping the edge of the table. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to miss it? When you finish the painting and you don’t get to see Hiroshi anymore?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A painting of the inside of the state box at Ford’s Theatre. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

"As a painting, it is finished," the master said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And third, some saucy tart once tried to impugn my virtue against an oil painting of him, and in the halls of memory, some things demand context. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The walls are stone and hung with no paintings or tapestries. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I sighed as I continued painting, all the while listening to the guy's increasingly extravagant—and desperate—sales pitches. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the walls, there are pictures of us, so my painting is a picture of pictures. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cristiana could also limn with skill, painting lifelike birds and flowers and faces I could recognize as those of Gertrude and her ladies. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Cave paintings from the King’s Grave at Kivik show a number of people playing - together - what look like curved horns. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Lacy is trying to explain that Mrs. de Winter is very fond of sketching as a hobby. So she gave her six fine volumes all about painting as a wedding present.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All week, there's been a film crew here, and we're reassigned from our normal jobs to spruce things up, planting flowers, painting buildings, clearing out beds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Water barrels being carried into the gym, with a heavily armed entourage, and people trying to push their way through to those barrels with all the anguish of a baroque painting. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He started painting them when the two brothers lived together in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Leafing past the paintings, I would admire the photographs of the artists seated in their garrets, dressed in tattered smocks and frowning in the direction of their beefy nude models. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Over it hangs a glossy painting called Three Oaks with three trees floating in the air against a yellow backdrop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should've listened to Mr. Miller and entered one of my paintings in the art show. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He expects some will think the people ugly, unfinished, but he hopes they will be seen as real people, and the painting as sincere. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On one wall was a large painting of a Seine river scene which Bull had bought while drunk in Paris. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I notice that the brightly colored mural behind Hideo is moving, as if the painting were alive, the colors swirling and shifting in a spectacular display. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom was at the kitchen table in front of her beach painting, which she had finally finished. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he knew I was there he kept studying the painting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I never saw this great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him--with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's office. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Chloe and I go to a field near a big, bulbous discharge facility, and I try painting the landscape in fall. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had always loved this painting and the story behind it. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medieval painting, for instance, is to a large extent “applied,” in the sense that it embellishes surfaces which serve other, practical purposes as well—walls, book pages, windows, furniture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames under the pot weren’t flickering; they were still, like paintings of flames. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As they walked along she told them stories of her own first flight, she kept painting vivid word pictures of what it would be like to be free. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess you’ll get to see some of my paintings, if you want.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When “parallel” lines converge at the vanishing point in a painting, observers are tricked into believing that the lines never meet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I add the freckles one by one, like I'm painting delicate flowers on a canvas. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On the second floor there were some offices and three empty lecture rooms, all with rows of wooden chairs, old oil paintings on the walls, and elaborate leaded glass windows. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Did you ever see that painting, Grandmamma, with the little girl in it?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Inside they could see a bead curtain hung across the hall entry, and a crystal chandelier and a Maxfield Parrish painting framed on one wall over a comfortable Morris chair. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin and I finish painting the last patch of wall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The reproduction of The Geographer in his library book was clearer and brighter than the copy of the painting on his box. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Calder and Petra found three other paintings of the woman in the yellow jacket. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the painting might make her long for the enchanted world of the preserve. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You know what else? He only signed some of his paintings. I wonder why?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Michael is going to look perfect for the fall festival, so I hope he does a good job painting it and presenting his god. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I turn on my heel and run, leaving the painting with Grandpa. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him about Abe Black in Coney Island, and Ada Black with the two Picasso paintings, and the birds that flew by Mr. Black’s window. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t remember where I had put his painting before we left home. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The class claps for us, and Mrs. Morris says she wants to hang the painting in the classroom. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s...a thing. A painting. It’s a painting for you, actually,” I answer. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She could hear her mother’s thought quite distinctly, colored with some snark: the painting would have to know what it was before it could become real. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Nothing decorated the walls; there were discolored rectangles on the walls to show where paintings or photographs had once hung. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And he brings up some business: Theo had asked him to help choose which of his paintings to submit for the fifth Exhibition of the Independents coming up that autumn. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The owners of the gallery want him to sell paintings in the traditional style because they re popular and bring in money. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Did I ever tell you what my favorite painting is? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Art Form simply disintegrated, all at once, like one of those exploding, vanishing faces in paintings by the British artist Francis Bacon. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam grabbed a painting from the wall and threw it down on my head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found it hard to be bad tempered on the top of a hill with ocean all around, the western sky like a painting still wet, the wind soft and warm. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Coraline could not be sure that they were paintings of people. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Maria was now a working artist: buying, selling, and painting for others. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was working on a large painting on an easel. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“His eyes follow you like one of those haunted-house paintings. And when you went upstairs to change, he tried to look at your phone when you got a text.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One from a painting of a dead goddess, the other from a dream: both blue, with red-brown hair and a band of black paint across their eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Death is not a pastime,” she says, her voice rising unsteadily, “not a place to make paintings.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jon has given up on his paintings of swirls and innards. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, Painter Chen was finishing the last painting on the Long Walkway. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had run out of canvases and had begun painting on plywood, so she picked up a piece of wood, got out her palette, squeezed some paints onto it, and selected a brush. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of her paintings are hanging on the walls between the bedrooms. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Marrel specialized in painting ornamental flowers—wildly popular in Europe at the time, especially tulips, which had hundreds of varieties. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Of all the paintings in the exhibition, the ones people talk the most about are those by Vincent van Gogh. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I put my hand down and looked at the painting of a sailboat on the wall, wondering if anyone on that boat had to share quarters with someone they didn’t have much in common with. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Something that will take less time during soccer season. Maybe some painting or...” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They hoisted children onto their shoulders to see the fireworks painting the skies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I mean, yes—I know how she feels. But that's not what I'm doing. I'm just looking at your painting." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t blame him—his books are my paintings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was like being in a Magritte painting. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“After I sent my son away, painting lost all its joy.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He started walking back toward my house, and when the silence was almost too much to bear, Diego said, “You know that painting you like?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He calls these paintings things like Enigma: Blue and Red, or Variation: Black and White, or Opus 36. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And the same to you, sir!” roared Sir Cadogan as the painting swung forward to admit them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And then the aquarium, the entire ocean spread before him like a moving painting. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The growing popularity of still-life painting reflected an increased emphasis on the home and personal possessions in Europe at the time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But, where perspective painting takes a three-dimensional world and turns it into a two-dimensional surface, Regiomontanus was now trying to take a two-dimensional image—the night sky—and turn it into a three-dimensional world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It slips out easily, and he doesn’t seem to notice the other paintings. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Again I hid indoors, painting and scraping until my knuckles bled. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

None of their personalities had been left in the rooms, except for the two paintings on the wardrobe doors, the lady cutouts, and the little picture of the boat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether we put up poems or photographs or even paintings is up to us, so long as the work is ours and we can tie it in with our study of the Harlem Renaissance. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The settlement included a number of religious shrines, the earliest found so far, and on their plaster-covered walls we encounter the earliest paintings on a man-made surface. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went right on painting, as if he were paying no attention to us, but he didn’t miss a word. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything’s an art. Everything in life. Even getting dressed. They put on a sweater, and it’s like someone painting a portrait of a duke in velvet.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She gripped the brush firmly, just as the woman did, and started painting. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mom’s paintings have always been brightly colored and beautiful, but something about applying all that color to her intricate, almost anatomical drawings of insects makes them something more than beautiful. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"It's a reproduction of a famous painting by an impressionistic French artist who was famous." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully I fill her with my paintings, hiding them so Mack won’t sell them. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She turns back to the paintings and stares at them, looking, truly looking. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It was a painting of a naked woman with a red face shaped like a knight’s shield. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

What composers could impose instead of incremental change were more abrupt contrasts of loud and soft, like the juxtaposition of light and shade, chiaroscuro, in painting. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When he’s not gardening, Grandpa likes to re-create his favorite paintings from the Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

While the girls bend over their books, I draw from my pocket the miniature painting of my mother that I carry always. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On the spot, they offered him a job painting closets, where his mistakes would be hidden. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was forever painting his house and the white picket fence in front of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the paintings are there, but not quite yet, a glimpse into the future. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Shadowing her stepfather and his apprentices, she learned how to select high-quality painting materials, create a pleasing composition, and interest potential customers. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I decide to do a painting instead of a mural. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Museo del Barrio was the only museum where I could look at the paintings without having a guard follow me from wing to wing. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not entering these paintings. I brought the wrong ones.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you had turned like this when you first started painting, this whole house could’ve been finished.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I really wanted to do Italian cooking, but June convinced me to do art, since we had such a fun time painting the sets. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had used picture wire torn from the backs of the paintings Osh had given Miss Maggie, and their wrists were bleeding. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Fleming said, “Do you have a photograph of that painting?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was done painting, he walked up to the old man and placed his gun to the old man’s head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Jam could feel a mild frustration in her, that the painting wasn’t clear, that it was hiding around corners from her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There was another one that was a painting of water lilies done in a very loose way. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

After scrubbing away most of the grime, she put the rag over one finger, held it in place with the other hand, and traced the outlines of the paintings. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

But when he shows you a painting he can make you see things in it that you wouldn’t notice if you just looked at it yourself. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the manual’s cover was a painting depicting a scene from the game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The painting depicted the god Janus with two faces, one masked like a comic player, the other wearing a tragic look. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I have old spears. Old arrowheads. I have old armor. I have blankets. And paintings. And sculptures. And baskets. And jewelry.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Flora put her face right up against the painting. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I jumped, startled, and turned away from the painting. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

An easel appeared, the blackbird struck a pose, and the outdoorsy artist started painting the bird’s portrait, while humming “Blackbird” by the Beatles. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She took me back to her studio and showed me her paintings. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It was a typical student apartment: prints of modern French paintings tacked onto the walls and books and papers piled on tables and chairs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Neon lights reflect against the wetness, painting the ground a menagerie of smeared gold, green, and blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mouse tried to take Osh’s place by saying very little and sitting quietly among his painting things. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Raina and Raise slap each other five and talk about spray painting the walls. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley looks through my paintings of the rendering sails, the discharge facility, Heather’s Bucket of Broth, my house in all seasons. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hates painting, for one thing, and his spackling is a disaster. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Aru recognized this type of Otherworld person from the paintings in the museum. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he was done painting for the day, Vincent would stack his canvases under the bed or put them in the cupboard. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After that they went back to their own attempts at painting flowers, dots, and in the case of Loo, a big blodgy handprint. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jam went toward the painting, trying to keep her feet light, aware that she was basically trying to creep up on a canvas. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The dartboard hangs precariously on a wall in the study, between tall bookcases and ornately framed oil paintings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I definitely don’t remember painting him that way. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even though I’ve kissed a bunch of boys, it never ever felt like this painting looks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The catchy phrase You will come to agree with me, the message found inside the packing box after the painting was stolen, had been picked up everywhere. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The painting was done by an Italian artist, who finished it in the thirties,” said Penney. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Gram was painting it in the same broad, swooping strokes and bright, contrasting colors that she always used. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The oil paintings my parents made on their first date because Pa wanted to wow Ma with an experience more memorable than just dinner. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If it was quiet, she was painting or contemplating potential subjects. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I finished painting another rock and June started another tree. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The painting he makes, though, shows more than pigment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There are paintings and framed photographs all over the walls and glass boxes full of pottery and sculptures spread out all over the floor space. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He stays inside, working in his asylum studio painting self-portraits and touching up older canvases. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was the first time that Catherine had given her one of her paintings. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It had been more than an hour since he’d grabbed the painting from the patrol car. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You can make it up to me by laying down some primer and then painting something cool over there to go along with this dragon.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

AH round the panelled walls there were ancient paintings of departed badgers, famous in their day for scholarship or godliness, lit from above by shaded glow-worms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was low in the west, painting the fields and houses all a glowing red. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then he starts on a painting for the baby. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I remember when I brought Grandpa his painting and Mango walked all over it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The room lacked furniture, but countless paintings hung on the walls. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even paintings acquire a new prominence by protruding slightly from the curved walls, instead of receding into them. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon’s painting is a series of intestinal swirls, in hot pink, raspberry ripple red and Burgundy Cherry purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word, Painter Chen turned back to his painting. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He sends studies for paintings to Émile Bernard: haystacks, fishing boats, a row of cottages, a sower with the setting sun, a harvest scene, and washerwomen at a canal with a bridge. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Thick rugs cover every floor, and paintings from several local artists she patronizes line our walls. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden everyone was looking off at the paintings on the walls or adjusting their collars—except for Emma, whose face was turning a certain shade of green. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I saw one more painting in the kitchen. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“My father is at his Pavilion of Solitude,” Sifen said, waving his hand toward a remote building far down the lakeside, “painting as usual.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my daughter created it,” I hear her boast, trilling her “r” ’s, clipping her vowels even more precisely than usual, as if her accent were partly responsible for the painting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fine green mold spread over the books and papers and paintings that were stacked so high and piled so deep you could hardly cross the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Diego’s painting from the winter carnival was leaning against my bed when I finally got home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She imported Italian furniture, artefacts, couture, jewellery, paintings, sculpture and architecture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Tassoni is well aware of all sorts of things that the ancients did not have: falconry, for example, or silk, or perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

These are taller, workman's boots, but again one is sole up, the other unlaced, the lace this time reaching off the edge of the painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Petra’s was to record some of the conclusions about which paintings were “real” and which were not. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You were in Hollywood working in pictures and now you’re painting houses? You sure must have done something wrong!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only father I knew was a big painting that hung in the main hall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were still painting on the shopwindows, but this time the painters were the bearded people, the shop owners themselves. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There’s a red splotch on his neck, and it inches its way to his face like someone’s painting him from the bottom up. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hugo thought that maybe the painting was a version of Prometheus, except Prometheus was stealing fire from the gods to create the movies. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He also suggests that Theo write to Tersteeg about taking some of the modern paintings for their old branch in The Hague, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Lourdes hadn’t approved of Pilar’s painting, not at all, but she wouldn’t tolerate people telling her what to do on her own property. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You forgot to bring the two painting stepladders and the board!” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a painting of a young man and woman in ancient Greek attire, both brandishing swords. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I stretch a twelve-by-eight-foot canvas and wash it with an iridescent blue gouache—like the Virgin Mary’s robes in gaudy church paintings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not painting what I see in front of me. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

For the current painting, she had incorporated more than ninety different shades. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He gestured to a painting hanging over the fireplace. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Black started with the back, moving the clippers up Needles's neck in sweeping motions like he was painting. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She passed the Degas dancers, the big painting made completely of dots, the Monet haystacks and bridges, and headed into the older works. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had a passion for trains—his office was littered with books about the history of railroads, model locomo­tives, paintings of trains trundling on tracks through green hills and over bridges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bob, who accidentally walked on one of my paintings, is licking his red paws. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The extreme light/dark contrasts throughout the painting imply the alternating emotions of hope and hopelessness. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Although Michelangelo Buonarroti is perhaps best known for his paintings of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, he always considered himself a sculptor, and primarily a sculptor of marble. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent in his workman’s clothes spends his days painting, outside if it’s not too cold, or inside the apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Their elongated faces and gaping mouths reminded Aru of that Edvard Munch painting her Art teacher had once shown the class. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Why not look at the painting directly through a small hole in a board? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And in The Hague the paintings he sent have not moved; only one of the Monticellis sold. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I gently lift the painting off the easel and almost drop it when my father knocks on my door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Face painting, hair braiding, nail polishing—it had sounded like such a good idea. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

One night while watching an old Marx Brothers movie on the Late Show, he was held entranced by a scene where the brothers were searching for a missing painting. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She puts her chin in her palms like someone in a painting. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“This will give her an outlet for her feelings,” Clara said, watching Alba balanced on the ladder, painting a train full of animals just below the ceiling. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked as an illustrator when he was younger, but he’s been painting for the last twenty years and has a huge online following. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What great works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music vanished or never were created? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jack’s arms were crossed now, and he studied Mr. Remora the way you might an abstract painting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the next painting, Aru was looking down triumphantly in the Court of the Seasons. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s strange that Rashid Uncle lives in this big house all alone. Did you see the paintings?” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Oh, so now you need my help, she started, then blinked down at the boiling smoke of the painting, distracted from her annoyance. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping we’d do something more exciting than painting this time.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like he was admiring a painting in a museum. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For that reason, our discussion is merged with an introduction to four major arts: graphic arts, painting, sculpture, and architecture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Splotchy brown-and-gray paintings covered the walls, and a chalkboard behind the counter listed a whole slew of colorfully named overpriced beverages. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He has stopped working on his canvas, the painting we all thought was going to be this awesome, earth-shattering piece of art that would be auctioned for a million dollars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The de Vries family is even wealthier than I'd realized; the furnishings in the rooms we pass are ornate and expensive-looking, with paintings on the walls and a rich, textured wallpaper. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And heartbreaking, I think to myself later, as I’m flipping through my paintings. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, I made her a cornhusk doll, painting a face on it with pokeberry juice and fashioning a gown for it with a piece of cambric from Becky’s scrap bag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as his mother made Uncle Vincent's name and paintings famous. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At the end of the table, a number of Oompa-Loompas were busily painting more faces on more candies. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hermione had turned to the portrait of the Fat Lady to get back inside and found herself facing an empty painting. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Fingers trembling, I hold up one of my paintings. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

This landscape takes up much of the painting. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My painting is of sometime in July, when the pine needles on the forest floor will smell sweet and hot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The one time we took it down, there was a pale square behind it, as though the sun had tanned the wall around the painting. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I open the box, I see broken shards of my Christmas ornament, along with burned scraps of what must be my father’s painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tiled floors, white walls, and paintings by Haitian artists made the interiors inviting. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There is a famous painting of the two boys together in Florence in 1770, Mozart at the piano, Linley with the violin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The woman chose another panel from the unfinished stack, and Naima started painting it. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent's painting flourishes with the warm weather, growing and changing as Arles fills with blossoming trees. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I want to be rich. I don’t want to end up painting houses!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We wanted to see the painting before class.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Kendra continued scouring the tiny house, investigating every piece of furniture, searching every closet, checking behind every miniature painting on the walls. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The rainbows crossed were in the painting behind him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of painting the blacking on his worn shoes he looked sideways up at her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When done, the sand painting glowed, making it easier to separate Darkness from the night shadows. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At least if I’m busy painting, then the week will fly by faster. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Photos, paintings, and artwork lined each of the walls. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Irregular jobs, such as painting the back porch or removing a stump from the front lawn, were awarded on a low-bid basis. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he spun around and pointed to one of the paintings above the trophy case. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He tapped his finger against the huge painting in front of us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

However, if Victor remembered right, the Madonna in the painting did look rather stern; maybe she did resemble Esther Hartlieb a little. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only the shape of a mouth was visible, and it spewed the same smoke that filled the rest of the painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The closest I came to death was during my battle with the final boss, the Black Dragon, who, of course, looked exactly like the beast depicted in the painting in Anorak’s study. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Daddy probably wouldn’t like the new paintings on the walls. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The object was a painting on a wooden panel about twelve inches square. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He stood and looked at the painting for a long time, then sat on the floor in front of it for what seemed like hours. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Kiko, have you ever considered going to school for drawing instead of painting?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sign says the painting was done by Lorenzo Lotto in the sixteenth century. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s something infinite about painting,” he tells his brother. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Before the crew could begin painting, Mr. Jackson said they needed to develop a game plan. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was awake, lying spread-eagle in his big platform bed, looking up at the trompe l’oeil painting of a domed and gilded ceiling that was open at the center to a pink sky. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The place is not full, so he is given one room to sleep in and another one to use as his painting studio. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For the moment, Catherine was painting the rock and the sand beneath Princesse, ignoring the main subject. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The patchy landscape was a strange sight, like a beautiful painting that someone had taken sandpaper to. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then I finish painting between the radiators, eat one last block of fudge, and lose twenty-five pounds. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The wooden clock with its loud tick-tick-tick and the oil painting of the village Gramps was from. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then they tied up the guards, turned off the alarms, and stole at least ten paintings, including a Vermeer and a Rembrandt. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were paintings and statues and mirrors and beautiful wooden things —nothing like where we lived. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was already tiptoeing, as quietly as she could, up the steps that would take her away from the dim cellar with the crude paintings on the walls. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I thought about Jackie, whispering gossip and painting her toenails with Carol Lee. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I look around my bedroom for ideas: from the checkered rug on my floor to the calendar of Georgia O’Keeffe flower paintings Dad bought me at the art museum he took me to last summer. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was painting her nails a pearly pink. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader’s, many paintings depicted death. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Could she and her daughters make a living trading, painting, and selling? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even though they were well hidden by the dark as they squatted there, they felt as exposed as that great bare lady in the painting upstairs. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no dark silhouette in the sky now; in fact, the landscape looked as if it were from a heavenly painting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The painting was so detailed Pinmei could even see that between the fingers of the maiden’s outstretched hand was a thin silver needle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mom would probably rather die than admit she's seen a painting of mine, and my brothers don't bother because all the video games and food are in other rooms. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I came inside cautiously and found Mom sitting at the kitchen table in front of her painting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once, nearly two years ago, Maribel had insisted on painting her fingernails black. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Abuela likes these paintings best, and even ventures a few suggestions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was advised as I took this job to not mistake the painting for the person. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Marston continued painting, using his remaining paint and the lids of packing crates for canvases. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Perspective painting, ballistics and fortification, cartography and navigation prepared the ground for Galileo, Descartes and Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I collect a folder of sketches and a stack of five paintings and box them up. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My gouache painting of Buddy Gui’s house—about a mile away from our house—shows his garage door open and all his chain-saw sculptures dragged out onto his driveway. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His paintings, and those of the other New Dealer artists, now hung in cafés and bars all around town. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coast is clear, so I run out and grab the painting from the backseat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“You know,” my mom said to me, “there’s one way this painting is different from the others.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I liked that there were all these neat little drawings and paintings by students on the walls, framed like they were important. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen that one before—the painting or the garden. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Serves me right,” I say, picking up the painting carefully so it won’t rip. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“She was good,” Noah says, still facing the painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She had decorated the mobile home with her paintings. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I felt, and then dismissed, an urge to grab the painting off the wall and run away with it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They’d made their homes in the branches, folding and unfolding their wings, until it looked like the entire grove was a living painting. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Catherine sifted through a portfolio of recent work and pulled out a small painting of Princesse lying naked on the beach rock with a candle in each hand. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was a house that needed painting, one that seemed to cry out for habitation and laughter beneath its roof. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he spoke that same evening to his eldest son, saying, “Have done with all this painting and polishing. It is enough. We are, after all, country folk.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was like a painting too vivid to be real—every pebble, every blade of grass sharply defined, the sky so blue it hurt me to look at it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The paintings of her dead ancestors on the wall watched her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studies every photograph of every painting, and he spends an awful long time on each drawing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I take a shallow breath and look at the painting, instead of at the class, while I talk. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But it was a misunderstanding, though unintentional, like a painting erroneously attributed to a master. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Tearing my gaze from the unfinished paintings, I search the room top to bottom. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is a large, drab, bare room in need of painting, with three windows in the back wall through which can be seen the New York skyline. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing on the walls, not a single painting or drawing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell him about my painting, because that’s too close to Mom, but I do tell him about the job at the café. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She thought about which of the children in the paintings she’d like to play with. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we had finally gone through the whole house, the older cousins, who were more experienced in lying, said how much they'd enjoyed the paintings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The first time we met the Gestapo, they’d helped themselves to most of the books, one painting, the silver menorah, and all of Grandmother Adler’s china. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

When we arrived, Mr. Muhammad showed us where he had just been painting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent thinks the painting should be framed in a flat, bright orange; that will look good with the blues of the background and the dark green of the trees. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Kendra had rarely seen Seth demonstrate as much diligence as he did on the paintings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The Aronstein flag painting was down and leaning against the wall, and my parents’ four-poster bed had been stripped bare. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Specifically, by the giant oil painting hanging above the table, which I can only assume is an early portrait of BoJack Horseman painted by Leonardo da Vinci himself. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And by slightly, I mean there are several oil paintings of single coffee beans hanging on the wall. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the day her class voted on the attribution of each of the thirty-five paintings, Ms. Hussey was oddly quiet. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Papa didn’t show us the painting, but I know all the sizes. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’ll paint landscapes, still lifes, scenes of cafes at night, furniture, rooms, flowering trees, flowers—he is about to begin painting his favorite again, sunflowers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Raspberry mocha, thin mint, stone gray...I’m so good at painting nails, I could open up my own shop. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I move to the west wall, where the new paintings are. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s even thinking about redoing old paintings, such as The Potato Eaters, and, if Theo likes, one of the old church tower at Nuenen, The Peasants Churchyard’ He thinks he can make something better now. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They made all the nude paintings I had seen in museums come to life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister's paintings were prominently displayed on the walls of the classroom, and the teacher invoked her name whenever discussing perspective or color. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He slowly walked away from me to stand in front of another painting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

From a distance it will look like a big painting you might see in a museum, but museums can’t capture the sound. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this particular day, which was fine but cold, he was painting. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And tens of millions of people see Vincent's paintings in museums all over the world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Although the finished painting will have slightly different objects than the sketch, the colors will be the same. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, she spent all the money meant for rice and bought the painting. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Hey: I was thinking of hanging my painting of the dining room in here. In the dining room.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If Wick really was putting throng haints into Robbie’s paintings like the Sorrows said, he would surely send them after Sierra and her family first. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Bob grabs paintings with his teeth and drags them to me. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop staring at the painting, looking for any detail that would give me insight into the real Diego Vega. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She shined the flashlight around the room again, letting its light play on old paintings, books, an ornate carved marble fireplace. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Theo’s influence, to the artists he’s met, and to his own tenacious work, Vincent’s paintings are better than ever: they are imbued with color and light and Vincent’s own particular style. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Grandpa,” I whisper, laying the painting down on the grave. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“You like it?” said Mr. Tushman, turning around and looking at the painting. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“So when do I get to see your painting?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Missing from the paintings, though, is the most important moment of all, the moment when one person was persuaded to put their trust in another. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On a piece of warped wood, I saw a faded painting of an old man in a toga. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He would smell the painting in his house. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In one of my paintings of my family’s house, my father is sitting on the stoop with his head on his knees. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could see he thought my paintings were bad. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The effect is so carefully calculated that the artist must have wanted to guide our eye to the painting in the background. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s just a painting, and it’s pretty small. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I could not look at the painting without feeling inspired. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me a thumbs-up and disappeared upstairs, the painting completely forgotten. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the day he had painted the chicken, he had hurried home, said goodbye, and, after painting a giant crane, jumped on its back, and flown away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

"Not at all. That would not—in any way—be better than realizing that there are many ways to see one thing. I love this painting even more now." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were oil paintings and an ancient piano and expensive china cups. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“ArtBoom. It’s a website where people post paintings and pictures. It’s supposed to be like an online art gallery. I think it’s kind of dumb.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent is painting scenes from their neighborhood—parks, street scenes, almost all of them within a short walk of the apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I demand that you write letters to all other owners of Vermeer paintings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He also began reading everything he could about Haiti, its history, language, music, literature, painting, and Voodoo religion. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Still, when she saw June near Annie Demetrios’s drippy neon painting of a ballet dancer in a leg cast, her stomach flipped and flopped and then started running a marathon around her body. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Felicia bought the maximum amount allowed, eight gallons, and spent two Sundays painting the house with borrowed brushes and ladders. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think part of the reason no one’s really come in here is because none of us knows what to do with the paintings that she never finished. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

However, if Brunelleschi had mastered the geometry of perspective as early as 1413 it becomes a little difficult to explain why there are no surviving paintings which embody these principles before 1425. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I pack two of my sketchbooks, and I even pack my unfinished portfolio full of photographs of all my paintings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a collection of the artist’s drawings, paintings, and tips on how to draw manga. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

From perspective painting, the new mathematical learning spread to cartography. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The great German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later marveled at how easily she moved back and forth between art and science, between the “inspection of nature and the aims of painting.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Black and white, and now I see that she is painting a picture of Ruby. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

After fencing, one of the hired men, a former apothecary's apprentice named Richard, instructed us in the art of painting our faces. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then Violet took down the painting of the eye. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In one month alone, according to my diary for 1939, I completed eighteen oil paintings. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He’d seen paintings of fat, naked goddesses from Rome in his art classes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love horses. I just don’t understand why your uncle Milton needs twenty-two paintings of them,” Dad says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Jam gasped and scrambled backward off the painting until she was pushing away from it, her chest rough and heaving, her left palm loud with hurt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was the same way someone might talk in front of a building or a painting they found particularly unpleasant. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Kathy was the business’s secretary, bookkeeper, credit department, public-relations manager—she did everything in the office, while her husband handled the building and painting. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This painting shows peasants toiling in a field while an overseer wields a staff. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The lead-up to her arrival began weeks before, with the guardians sifting through all our work—our paintings, sketches, pottery, all our essays and poems. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then all that human breath was bad for the paintings. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But what the kids noticed more than the gifts they had given him were the many, many paintings; large and small, all black and white, and on every available wall space. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But perspective painting provided the first glimpse of this new universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I flop onto my back again, dig my fingers into the loamy soil and imagine Mom making that incredible painting, wishing with her hands, being that in love. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She looked at the paintings in Auntie Seema's apartment, canvases of all sizes leaning against the walls. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Willis spun around at the sound of Turner's voice, but then he turned back to the painting. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We entered the kind of room they only have in museums—vaulted ceilings, paintings on the walls. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The windows were shuttered; the projector flickered on, displaying a painting. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I don't have to look far for Jamie—he's one step behind me, admiring a large painting of a flock of black swans pulling a carriage through the air. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He starts by painting long green vines that sprout pink and purple flowers. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some boats were up on racks, and men and women worked over the hulls, sanding, scraping, painting. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrestle a frame off another old painting from the back of my closet and put the blurred portrait in it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dad was at the drafting table, working on some calculations, and Mom was going through her stacks of paintings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, there’s one you’ve never seen before!” said the Match-Man proudly, pointing to a painting of a mountain covered with snow and its slopes simply littered with grasshoppers sitting on gigantic roses. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

These are the kinds of places where people buy gold watches and real paintings and jewelry and expensive clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, there was perspective painting, grounded in geometrical abstraction; on the other, the printing of engraved plates, supplemented by text produced on a printing press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But an echo of a memory is not the same as a memory, and a memory is not the same as a now, and anyway, he’d said it loud enough that the painting heard it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then Tillie promised calligraphy lessons to the person who took the pen and ink, and Bella promised fabric painting lessons to the person who took the tuxedo T-shirt. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself I need to thank him, when I’m not busy drooling into the windows and hyperventilating over the oil paintings and watercolors and canvases as big as my garage door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The preacher tried painting over those tiles, but the letters won’t stay covered up, and so the preacher has just given up and let them be. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised by Dr. Cooke’s paintings, though; judging from her elegant style, I thought she’d have better taste in art. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The ceilings rose to six meters high, decorated with elaborate paintings of owls in the branches of white poplars. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A note was taped to the frame that read This isn’t a painting it’s a mirror. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There is nevertheless a vast difference between drawing or painting forms and sculpting them. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will be looked at, now, with respect: paintings that can get bottles of ink thrown at them, that can inspire such outraged violence, such uproar and display, must have an odd revolutionary power. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes," said the voice, "the village will he free from taxation for the next year. And I will take the painting." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Thin slants of light cut through the blinds, painting yellow stripes against my arms. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon she began to wonder which paintings would be fun to go into, or which ones she might like to take home to her room. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the time he will spend in Arles—444 days—he’ll make two hundred paintings and one hundred drawings, a huge number for an artist. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And she would tell him about her classes, what paintings she’d studied that week, and her favorite, the real reason she woke at four thirty every morning and stayed up late every night: photography. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just because line is discussed with drawing, however, does not mean that it is not equally important in painting and sculpture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes on to explain that he’s footing the bill for all these ‘castles in the air,’ as he calls them, gesturing to the paintings. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Your latest paintings have given me a great deal to think about as regards your state of mind when you made them,” he writes to his brother. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He tells me, “In a good landscape painting, you should be able to guess the barometric pressure.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if she was painting herself another reality. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom decided that before she could get down to any serious painting, she needed to compile a thorough art reference library. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They picked the best paintings to brighten the dark clay walls inside their one-room hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

These paintings are currently in a number of big and powerful museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had on die same thing Dad did, a T-shirt and pajama pants, but it looked like he’d been painting with red, red paint. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painting is a personal statement, an allegory, and it is also a glimpse into the future. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

REELTOK: And before the breakup, you had no idea that your girlfriend was painting swastikas all over the school? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

You never stayed long enough to get a pet or a houseplant or hang any paintings. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, confiscated treasures are crammed to the ceiling: rolled tapestries, grandfather clocks, armoires, and giant landscape paintings crazed with cracks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The blood spread across her lifeline, and Jam stared at the painting, at the small red drops she’d tracked along it, past the edge, onto the hardwood floor, bread crumbs leading to her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Professor McGonagall, please go to Mr. Filch at once and tell him to search every painting in the castle for the Fat Lady.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Henry, in coat and tie, waded out to where Francis stood, his trousers rolled to the knee, an old-fashioned banker in a surrealist painting. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Watches, jewelry, paintings, statues, and moon rocks piled up on the lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom nodded and looked down, dusting off one of her paintings, murmuring something to herself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Because,” they say, “it was through this painting, this landscape by Adam Costello, that we discovered the marvelous work of tonight’s winner: Buddy Gui.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He squinted his eyes, the way one inspects a fine painting, searching for his mother there in the face of his father. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were photos on the mantel, a few paintings on the walls, and a basket of yarn beside the armchair. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As I look at a painting of a woman with a large butt, hanging in the dining room, I remember Olga’s friend Jazmyn, who also has a large butt. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Still weak from her tropical illness and pressed for time, she was forced to hire others to etch and engrave most of the copper plates based on her paintings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The honor of having my painting front and center is deliciously heavy on my shoulders. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It’s lined with framed paintings, and there’s jazz music faintly floating through the air. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She hung there corpse-like; her hands turned outwards, as, in paintings of Christ, he stands when with gentility he reveals to Thomas the holes torn in his side and palms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She got out her painting supplies and went to work. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just as the tip of one of the men's swords was about to touch him, Painter Chen jumped right into the painting! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The floor glistens like it’s permanently wet and tall paintings hang on the walls. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I look out at the sky—it’s kind of a purple-rose color, with cottony puffs of clouds here and there, like a painting. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Small paintings with gilded frames line the walls, and just outside David’s office is a pedestal with a bouquet of flowers on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They were banned from profitable crafts such as oil and landscape painting. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Above the shelf hung a number of paintings. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The money he earned from cutting ice or trapping lobsters or painting his pictures went for things we couldn’t grow ourselves. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Perspective painting generally involves a peculiar form of abstraction: the construction of a vanishing point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of the Negro girls had her mother coil braids over her ears Shanghai-style like mine; we were Shanghai twins except that she was covered with black like my paintings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last year I read somewhere that writing a book or making a painting was the same as having a child,” he writes to Ma. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In my painting of the dining room, I try to capture how empty it is. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A lot of my paintings then began in my confusion about words. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, if the mood had passed, she’d be painting and humming away as if nothing had happened. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls, reproduction Chinese paintings, mostly landscapes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he realizes why when Theo looked at the paintings in Paris, they seemed darker than they had to him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He is literally all I think about, even when I’m painting, and usually painting is how I shut out the rest of the world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"You are painting that beam with water!" the magistrate said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I hung my toxic waste dump painting on the wall. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After a moment’s bewilderment, he realized that it was not a mirror, but a painting. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"It is only that this painting is most amazing, even for such a skilled artist as you. This dragon painting will bring great honor to the village when we present it to the magistrate." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They found carved furniture, sitting rooms, lounges, a bar with shattered liquor bottles, staterooms, art on the walls mangled and torn, oil paintings tossed about and punctured. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Light rippled up and down the blade, now red, now yellow, now orange, painting the king’s face in harsh, bright hues. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Pretty much. He and I are standing in front of the same painting. I’m smiling, he’s frowning. I tell him I think the work is remarkable, and he says, ‘a remarkable burden.’ Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Right now I am painting the Virgin Mary. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She got on her knees and shuffled back to the painting, peering at it without the vertigo of standing upright, cradling her hand to her chest. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I sigh and give up, grimly aware that the painting is probably completely ruined by now. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I saw no photographs or paintings anywhere, neither on the floor where his family lived, nor here on the floor where he lived and his father worked. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Vincent is not well enough to go outside right now, but he sets about painting pictures from memory—of their childhood in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether I should include her in the painting I’m doing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about your painting of the hand with the egg. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I crane my neck, peering through the crowd, which has blotted out the paintings; only a few tops of heads are visible, a few skies, a few backgrounds and clouds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Henri had been painting with glue, iron rust, and colored chicken feathers but he changed and his next four paintings were done entirely with different kinds of nutshells. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee had once seen a painting in which a saint of the Church was shown being attacked by assassins. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Princesse sat on the veranda next to Catherine, holding her little painting. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Pinmei looked down to see Sifen gazing up at her, the lines on his face painting a picture of his pain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

All of this was in the painting’s foreground, but my eyes had instantly locked on what was in the background: a large white house, with its front door and windows all boarded up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Before he even bothers to try his slice of cake, Uncle Phil sets out on a mission to find the perfect spot in his house to display the painting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The floors were shining, the walls a cool, soothing white, and the titles of the paintings were written in Spanish, with the English translation as a secondary thing. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sending the others. The paintings and drawings of our town.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seth sat on a stool in the corner, painting. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There is a painting by Asher Brown Durand called “Kindred Spirits,” which is often reproduced in books when the subject turns to the American landscape in the nineteenth century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see the paintings that she was still working on, that she’ll never get to finish now. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The painting of the shipwreck by the door, it says ‘Kraken’ on the frame. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you what I did today...I start to describe the Eiffel Tower for him, the sculptures, the painting in the Louvre, and even the scene where Lou and I laughed. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That enormous arch—they seem to be painting it! They’ve got pots of paint and big brushes! You look!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

With the money he made from lobstering and cutting ice out of Wash Pond and selling his paintings to the summer people, Osh had bought nails, a hammer, and whatever else he lacked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He holds his naked hand to his chest, kneading the palm, the flickering light from the fire painting his face in dramatic shadows. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had never been in Canada but she kept painting wondrous word pictures of what it would be like. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has another reason for painting furiously now: the artist Paul Gauguin is coming to live with him, and Vincent wants to impress him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My mind went swirling back to our home, back to the place where Papa kept your paintings. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it need another painting if it went there and wanted to come back? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Castro had left it out on her desk, opened to her favorite painting, Girl Before a Mirror. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The artist was pretty good, the painting almost like a photograph. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Petra answered, he said, “Listen, I think we should call the National Gallery and ask if A Lady Writing is there. You know, to find out if the painting is safe and all that.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The man studied the store window as if he were assessing a painting, and then went back inside. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Zero was, quite literally, at the center of Brunelleschi’s painting. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Written by a respected art historian, it included an excellent color plate of every painting attributed to Vermeer. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I thought about the painting of Papa-Nnukwu in my bag. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s one unequivocal piece of good news: the crate of two dozen paintings that Vincent had sent three weeks earlier, the first shipment from Arles, finally arrives in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you know whether the painting is in Chicago now?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’s on a hot-pink Electra with brightly colored stencils on the fenders that remind me of one of the modern art paintings we saw on our class trip to the Norton Museum last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps to prove her skills could be of service, she began painting an illustrated book of useful herbs. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After going on about the margarine, they started fighting about whether or not some painting Mom had done was ugly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She fingered a miniature painting of him she wore on a ribbon about her neck. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The plastic keepsake attached to it was a painting of half of a yellow sun on a black background. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Calder flipped back and forth in the book, looking at some of the other Vermeer paintings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I have felt this way in the Prado in Madrid after looking at a hundred paintings—the stuffed and helpless inability to see more. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to waste my summer painting a church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’d seen my world close up, but never from a distance. It’s like the paintings.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the painting came to life: The dragon stretched its long neck as if waking from a thousand-year sleep, blinked a few times in the glare of the streetlight, and then looked directly at Sierra. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Across the room, the painting of the knight charging the dragon was complete. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I think about all that great early punk and the raucous paintings I used to do. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the U. U for understand...no, that’s not right. It’s U for under. Under—maybe the painting is hidden beneath something.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But now there was a box of blank wall where the painting hocked for my bail money had been, I couldn’t remember which. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But to the left of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous picture, another painting glows with rich colors. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There's Hiroshi, painting my hands so I can paint my voice. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My skin is darker than even the paintings of African queens hanging in tourist shops, same paintings my mom would buy so she could hang on her bedroom walls. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The right wall of the studio is covered in paintings I've done over the last six months. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It's the smile from every single portrait, painting, newspaper, tattler, and scandal sheet. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Placing it on the ground by itself, she squinted at the painting. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because I can no longer control these paintings, or tell them what to mean. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The morning light made its way in only through a few windows, painting pale patches high up on the walls and columns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In deference to his bosses, Theo hangs the more traditional paintings on the ground floor, and the modern paintings on the entresol. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was too different—took seriously things that even girls ought not to take very seriously: paintings, poems, the music she played on the piano. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was painting my picture of the dining room, I realized that for several months, one of our digital frames had been broken and no one had noticed. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The children were evacuated, the museums emptied of paintings, the storefronts shuttered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He likes my paintings very much, but while I am doing them he always finds that I am doing this or that wrong,” Gauguin says. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He's standing in front of a painting of a girl serving a condemned man his last meal. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bright paintings with white winged horses and snakes as long and wide as lakes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Looking at art in those three days expands his view of color in painting in a way that reading about it could not. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The cover showed a painting of a white boy, maybe around twelve or thirteen years old, sitting at a desk doing homework. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I should have never let you finish painting it,” he said, his voice dropping. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Anyone can buy cheap paintings and reproductions to decorate a room, where they often hang virtually unnoticed, perhaps deservedly so. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in Sir Palomides' room, where the door was kept locked, there was such a stitching and snipping and painting and arguing as had seldom been known before. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In mid-November, Pearl and Moody, along with the rest of their modern European history class, had gone to the art museum to look at paintings. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Root stalked down the hallway, glaring back at the oil paintings. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Perspective painting thus involves the application of theory to particular circumstances. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Although the majority of professional musicians were men, contemporary paintings show that a huge number of amateur musicians were women. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He’s tall, about my height and from some of the paintings he showed us he did when he was young he can definitely draw. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

None of the articles and blogs are any help—he’s saying the same thing in all of them, and people are painting him as either a freak or an oracle. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks a beautiful copy of the popular painting Mao Ze-dong on His Way to Anyuan appeared in our alley. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding the rake, Ronan looks like that famous painting of the farmers standing with a pitchfork. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with super-expensive-looking paintings, both Mr. Tanaka’s and from other artists, and there were little lights beaming down on them like we were at an art gallery. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was like a vibrant painting that had come alive. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said she wanted to study it first, the way she would the subject of a painting. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When an artist paints over an image, the first painting is often gone forever, never to reappear. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It had the same furniture, the same carpet, even a similar painting on the wall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I dashed over to examine the painting, marveling at the colors and shapes. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“We’re a Muslim couple running a painting company in Louisiana. Not such a good idea to turn away clients.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For thousands of years, as civilizations waxed and waned, these three art forms—painting, sculpture, and architecture—embodied the ambitions, dreams, and values of their cultures. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

“A long time ago, when we were maybe a little older than you or around your age,” he continued, “something came through a painting.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There are four figures in the painting, but the most prominent are these two men standing together. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I want a big painting like the Mexicans do, but pro-American,” she specifies. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z