Typically he would paint around 400 figures a day, standing almost motionless at the easel.

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Then he said that he would paint three paintings in our size that would fit our tastes, as he understood them.

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Before that 1995 puck-dropping ceremony, the Devils asked Warburton if he'd do them a favor: Would he paint a D on his bare chest?

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The work became so absorbing, so meditative, that he would try to paint at the deepest hours of night, when only the bark of a dog or distant cock-crow would disturb the southern French hillside where he lived.

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No, he would go home and paint his mare.

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Deputy Barry Paint said he would not use it because it encouraged people to be rude to each other.

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He did not expect it would be easy to paint the mare.

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He thinks a complete interior overhaul and a good paint job would suffice.

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Mr Backhouse said he painted the sign as part of Road Safety Week UK and would paint over it on 5 December.

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Keene couldn't use regular paint because the sun and the elements would ruin it, so he used gold-leaf metals in blue, gold and green.

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Every day, he wandered through his rooms, calculating how long it would take to patch the fractured plaster, paint the blotched walls, and glaze the windows.

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