Ms. Spaterna insisted on painting a daisy on my pinkie nail.
The painting commenced on a Tuesday because on the Monday there was ceaseless rain.
Both epic and intimate, the big painting centers on a slight, kind gesture.
Like so many other senior citizens, he spends his days at a retirement village in a Sun Belt state, keeping himself busy with painting and reflecting on a long and successful career.
She was held after being seen scrawling a graffiti tag on the painting, a Romantic masterpiece painted in 1830 to celebrate a French uprising.
When commissioned, Mr. Finkelstein typically executes a painting on site, so his studio functions more as a laboratory for developing techniques and perfecting styles.
"I think changing a picture's frame is an ownership thing, a territorial way to put your mark on a painting, " says Eli Wilner, a New York dealer widely credited with raising the American frame market's consciousness (not to mention prices).
The large Minneapolis-based band includes live painting on stage in a multimedia performance that has earned them a unique reputation in the indie music world.
Now he is a plasterer and a decorator - so he was there with his sleeves rolled up and taking part in the painting, although on a Saturday afternoon he was a star of the midfield.
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His high-profile stunts have included painting "I want out" inside the elephant enclosure of London Zoo and a painting of a ladder on the partition wall in Israel's West Bank.
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One dealer who has done a number of transactions with the family recounts a time when David's London nephew changed the price of a painting after the two had agreed on a number.
There was a painting on the wall, just like the one described in the story.
The big test for checking whether animals recognise themselves involves painting a mark on their faces.
She became fixated on a hair twisted in a painting's crack, trying to figure out how it got there.
Their first significant 20th-century purchases were two Fontanas a work on paper and a white painting which they selected with the help of James Kelly, a Santa Fe gallerist they've been working with since 1999.
In a cute bit of installation wit, the "painting" isn't up on a wall, but instead rests backside out on two felt-covered wood blocks, as if the exhibition were still in preparation.
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There is a painting of a Boca Juniors player on the outside of each hotel room door, and guests have access to a state-of-the-art health club, a heated indoor pool and a sauna.
Mr Williams said he intended to carry on painting and would love a career as an artist.
Starting the 1970s, the company asked contemporary artists to liven their reports with a single painting of a brand bottle on the cover.
Technology writer Clive Thompson described them as points in a pointillist painting: each update on its own is not that interesting, but together they create a rich portrait of a life.
To date, his highest profile work has been a collaboration with handbag designer Anya Hindmarch, and spray painting the entire alphabet on the shop shutters of a street in Spitalfields in his signature ice-cream palette.
Marcel Duchamp took a reproduction of da Vinci's painting, and drew a moustache and goatee on her face.
Not only was Berenson paid a large retainer by Duveen, he often took a commission from a sale whose size depended on the attribution he gave to a painting.
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For their part, Democrats, gleeful that their president enjoys a double-digit poll lead over Mr Romney on foreign policy, were painting the Republican as a diplomatic lightweight long before trouble flared in Libya.
There's a painting in progress on an easel in his studio at home.
Chinese commentators fear the effect on public order, painting a picture of bands of testosterone-crazed youths roaming the countryside, raising hell.
And to add a final touch of authenticity, he had Hebborn cover the counterfeit van de Velde signature with that of Jan Brueghel, the sort of petty fakery you might expect to find on a genuinely old painting.
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New York (CNN) -- Exactly eight months after the "brazen" theft of a Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan art gallery, a Greek national was indicted Tuesday on a grand larceny charge, according to the New York County District Attorney's Office.
In 2003, the then-little known Banksy sneaked a painting into Tate Britain and managed to evade guards to hang it on a wall.
On a wall near Joe's remains: a 1940 oil painting of Joe's distinguished descendant Ch.
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