This is definitely staying!" says John Derian, gazing lovingly at an ancient wheezy radiator, whose miserable paint appears to have been flaking off, chip by chip, for decades.
The shows, he said, have "convinced people that their poor miserable wooden painting surrounded by an old wooden frame is worth a million dollars.
Then these stories and their characters — like the couple who save their marriage with boxing therapy, the miserable Hungarian exile painting what seem to be blank canvases (to critical acclaim), the composer wrestling with a man he sees out of the corner of his eye — become treats to be savored.
2) Watch the cash evaporate, an even more miserable exercise than watching paint dry. 3) Spend everything now.
At S Cemetery in Umlazi Township, Innocent Gasa's handiwork is everywhere: endless mounds of fresh red earth topped with headstones, unpainted wooden crosses, or, for the most miserable, bricks bearing a painted identifying number.
It had grown dark outside – he works with natural light – and the painting looked fairly miserable.
In 1950, the five-star general wrote to his friend Winston Churchill: "I have had a lot of fun since I took up, in my somewhat miserable way, your hobby of painting.
A painting of a miserable little girl in rags, warming her hands over the fire of an exploded Samsung Galaxy Note 7. See if there are still any old promotional posters for "Snakes on a Plane" posted anywhere, and if there are, replace the snakes' faces with cut-up photos of congressmen.
He paints such a miserable and lonely picture of being an England cricketer.
This tweet – and the additional news that "super recognisers" will be returning, looking for anyone banned from the event – paint a pretty miserable picture of police engagement with the event.
