Sentence examples for paint smear from inspiring English sources

She conceals his nightgown with its incriminating paint smear, and allows suspicion to fall on her instead, as a former thief.

As for the other works in the group, the freshest is Mr. Marcaccio's "Street Paintant" (1999), a run of 10 small canvases that begin with a digitally produced photograph of an accidental paint smear on the sidewalk near a parked blue van.

The critic Sanford Schwartz has called him "the Master of the Blur," citing the one stylistic device common to most of his pictures, whether abstract or realist: a sideways paint smear that destroys sharp visual contours and, implicitly, confident discriminations in thought and feeling.

Indie concert-goers have been seen with painted faces, and fashion designers have sent models down runways with paint smeared across their cheeks.

The music Mr. Gill wanted to make was like paintings he was doing at the time: precise black grids with blotches of paint smeared across them.

The students' names and ages are penciled on the backs, amid a few paint smears.

Having paint smeared over me, I just kept pushing the replay button.

The house is defaced by graffiti, paint smears and broken windows.

Several people held up crosses, one with a baby doll nailed to the wood, red paint smeared across its body.

They were paint smeared and rust gnawed, dinged and dented, scarred by fire, acids and resins — and a few should be hanging in some Chelsea gallery right now.

Lady Gaga has released the artwork for her forthcoming single 'Applause' in which she appears with paint smeared down her face.