"paint up" is not grammatically correct.
You can use the phrase "paint up [somethig]" when you mean to paint something, for example: "We'll have to paint up the fence this weekend".
"It's like when you were a kid and you mixed all your paint up".
He is an inveterate deadline surfer ("I always paint up to the last minute, often making radical changes").
Sukumaran, who has released several harrowing self-portraits since being given notice of his imminent execution, asked to be allowed to paint up until the last possible moment.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada In some societies, on some occasions, men paint up as much, if not more than women.
Take the Sync Shot, where you can paint up to four targets for team mates to establish line of sight for a coordinated kill.
Sukumaran continued to paint up until his last day, producing a rendering of a human heart signed by each nine of the prisoners who were scheduled to be shot in the early hours of Wednesday.
In these, Ms. Nelson is painting up a storm.
"She paints up country in a way that we see that country is magical," Slade says.
"They're all painted up, they got their signs, they got their towels.
"Still remember Kiss because we were painted up like they were!" says Dingo, chuckling.
He certainly determined the character of Bohemian panel painting up to the outbreak of the disastrous Hussite wars (1419).
