The word 'paintbrush' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a tool used for applying paint. Here is an example sentence: I bought a new paintbrush in order to redecorate my bedroom.
Even now, when I cross my own lips with my favourite shade of red, an image of his fine-bristle paintbrush flashes through me.
Video games, which rely on special effects, are a bigger part of the business than ever.Jeffrey Katzenberg, who co-founded DreamWorks Animation with Mr Spielberg and David Geffen after being forced out of Disney in 1994, recently described new animation technology as "maybe the most powerful paintbrush ever put in the hands of artists".
They cut back on the use of pencils, changed the fabric of mailbags and lowered the tariff on paintbrush handles.
That is what determines if an artist will pick up a pen or paintbrush instead of a mop.Terje Gaustad Senior lecturer Norwegian School of Management OsloBritain's election* SIR – George Galloway did not leave the Labour Party "in protest against the war in Iraq" ("A three-horse race", April 17th).
In the prototype, these included a magnetic gripper for placing floor tiles in a specific arrangement and a virtual paintbrush for colouring on a computer screen.
With camera or paintbrush or in an installation, they editorialise, tell stories and set the historical record straight, often in new and unforeseen ways.
ED MILIBAND approaches the soapbox in fact a wooden pallet, placed on a bitter-cold Tyneside high street with the fateful heroism of Damien Hirst selecting a paintbrush.
GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE first picked up a paintbrush in earnest at the age of 27, when he and his brothers inherited their father's fortune in 1874.
Although his infirmity became more and more constraining, Renoir never ceased to paint; when his fingers were no longer supple, he continued by binding his paintbrush to his hand.
They are variously known as devil's paintbrush, golden lungwort, mouse-ear, rattlesnake weed, and shaggy, orange, or narrow-leaved hawkweed.
In this article, however, the print refers to the original creation of an artist who, instead of the paintbrush or the chisel, has chosen printmaking tools to express himself.
