"If you paint a new house, you need to scrape off the old paint, " says Rabiner.
In recent months, an army of contractors, suppliers and other volunteers have peeled off layers of old paint and dated wallpaper and ripped up grimy carpet in anticipation of the show house, which was held this month.
Those in the cell who could afford to buy old plastic paint cans of water bathed every other morning.
It was in that kitchen that my artistic four-year-old daughter learned to paint.
Old louvered shutters with peeling paint can shake things up for the better, too.
The 21-year-old had used bold red to paint a poem on tin.
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All that reminds us of the cosmonaut in Klushino is the sagging road sign with peeling, discoloured paint, and an old one-storey house.
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Pat Steir, a 74-year-old New York artist who pours paint down her monumental canvases, recalled one summer in 1964 visiting a friend whose father was an abstract painter.
The old telltale signs, such as irregular paint and misshapen hosels, with glue oozing out, are less common.
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They will also have to deal with the problem that Rothko's paint is more than 50 years old and has naturally aged and changed.
One reason for Sherwin's success: In a classic tort case--this defendant injured that plaintiff--it's very difficult to prove whose paint is on the walls of an old house.
One of them is one of the competition documentaries called "My Kid Can Paint That" about this four-year-old girl who's a prodigy painter.
On a recent visit, the scent of fresh paint was in the air as a 14-year-old boy from the eastern suburbs was hard at work on a huge pink, New York-style work of graffiti.
The 105-acre area, which includes two car assembly plants, a paint shop and offices, accounts for about a quarter of the old site.
The 29-year-old Swedish artist wanted to prove to himself that he was good enough to paint a work that could pass as a photograph.
His props, including old Buicks and Oldsmobiles he took to buyers' houses ("I drove the paint off three of those bastards"), were all part of the bargaining act, a sort of collector's duck blind behind which he hid.
Ms. Luss is a 53-year-old painting major who left a career in business development and sales to learn how to paint.
Laura Vanegas, a 45-year-old native of Ecuador, changes into her Liberty robes and applies copper-green face paint behind the Times Square military recruiting station.
She went on to paint a picture of those her age "back in the day" as old people -- wrinkled, shriveled up and discarded by society.
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The 33-year-old made a string of saves as his side overcame Morecombe 1-0 in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
Like many Moscow apartments, it did not look much from the outside - a heavy, grey-steel security door, a scruffy communal entrance hall, a grand old staircase with a cast-iron banister spoiled by multiple layers of shiny, off-blue institutional paint.
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