The phrase "aiming to paint" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing an intention or goal related to painting, whether literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The artist is aiming to paint a mural that reflects the community's history."
Alternatives: "intending to paint" or "planning to paint".
But whether you're pushing acceptance of scientific consensus, the opposite, or simply aiming to paint a particular technology choice with some scientific shine, please stop mentioning Galileo.
And the artist Grahame Hurd-Wood is aiming to paint a portrait of every person in his home city of St Davids, in Wales.
"Will they cool off Ahmadinejad and tone down their language?" The Bush Administration, by charging that Iran was interfering in Iraq, was aiming "to paint it as 'We're responding to what is an intolerable situation,' " Brzezinski said.
Last fall, New York planted its millionth new tree, part of a campaign launched in 2007, and city officials are aiming to paint a million square feet of rooftop with white reflective coating every year.
And then there is the twenty-year-old Jelena Ostapenko, of Latvia, who won the French Open last month by essentially playing a grass-court style: blasting every ball, aiming to paint the lines, making tons of errors but hitting a crazy number of winners, too.
The campaign of billboards and newspaper ads has been condemned by the EU as distorting the truth and aiming to "paint a dark picture of a secret plot to drive more migration to Europe".
Mr Livingstone, knowing that voters often punish governments between general elections, aims to paint his rival as just another Tory.
The defence, by contrast, aim to paint Tsarnaev as weak; a stoned teenager, in thrall to Tamerlan; a follower.
Clinton has aimed to paint Sanders' pitch to the nation as unrealistic, but there was a real sense of exhaustion with triangulation and incremental change.
Her Showtime series aims to paint her hometown in all its complexities and nuances, not just the unremitting violence depicted on the news.
With "The Chi," a new Showtime drama that debuts on Jan . 7 Ms. Waithe aims to paint her city in all its complexities and nuances.
