Sentence examples for boxes of paint from inspiring English sources

He was Tracey Emin's boyfriend, as well as one of Hirst's best pals (as he still is: Collishaw recently took up painting after Hirst gave him 10 huge boxes of paint).

Police officials reported that among the confiscated items were 193 makeshift shields; 2 boxes of paint bombs; and 58 fluorescent tube lights that had been filled with a mixture of paint and oil, and nine large metal platforms on wheels carrying makeshift milk-crate staircases.

After she'd finished the lampposts, she walked over to a graffiti-covered concrete pylon with her box of paint supplies.

Most of the purple-shirted volunteers strolled by him as he dabbed his brush, a wooden box of paint tubes and a bag overflowing with painting gear near his feet.

When I play, we always buy a big box of paint and split the cost, just to keep it cheap for everyone.

Calatrava turned to the box of paints.

When he was 21, his girlfriend gave him a box of paints.

In "A Case of You," she wrote and sang, "Oh I am a lonely painter/I live in a box of paints".

"Die Flamme," which seems quite explicitly a metaphorical self-portrait, presents a riding-jacketed man, in a landscape, striding the length of a long wooden box of painting materials.

They wandered about, with a mule and a box of paints, hoping to find a virgin wall or ceiling to immortalise, followed by a meal, a bed and a patron, or even a patroness.

Put into an orphanage at seven, convicted of his first crime at 11 (stealing a box of paints), and a drug addict and burglar by the time he was in his teens, Prescott didn't stand a chance.