"paint an image" is a correct sentence in written English.
You can use it when you want to explain that you are using words to form a mental picture in someone's mind. For example, "The author paints an image of a cold winter night in his story."
Taken together, the fossils paint an image of a place that was far different back in the Early Pliocene.
When Jean Miles, weeping, took the stand, Fisher helped her paint an image of domestic normalcy: FISHER: Your house was kind of a getaway for him, wasn't it?
During the six months that the Moroccans spent in London, the ambassador had himself portrayed by an anonymous artist, who did his best to paint an image of "The Noble Moor".
Dave Andrusko, the editor of National Right to Life News, accused the advert of trying to paint an image of the Catholic Church as "outdated and abandoned by the people".
It may suit a minority of Irish people to feel that "The English" hate us; to paint an image of The Englishman as a cruel Lord in his distant castle.
Interviews with tribal elders, business leaders, political analysts and diplomats here paint an image of a leader who is desperately trying to shake his widely held image as an American lackey by appealing to nationalist sentiments and invoking Afghanistan's sovereignty.
"I am painting an image," he said.
Mr. Bush also painted an image of American freedom intended to appeal to many Chinese.
This is a profound and lonely painting, an image of an isolated human figure, at once irreducibly authoritative and moving.
("Too often, on social issues, my party has painted an image of America slouching towards Gomorrah," Bush said.
The artist digitally paints an image and programs functions into the underlying code to control how the image will transform over time.
