The animal figures are from the company's archives, as are the decorative patterns painted across their bodies.
French Impressions of Greenwich, Conn., has imported a line of wood furniture decorated with 19th-century toile patterns painted on top or front panels.
The girls would be in the dining room with Michelle, the beautician, having intricate patterns painted on their fingernails and toenails.
This image is complicated by organic abstract patterns painted over and incised into the paint layers, so that the Southern Gothic vision seems to emerge out of a kind of richly layered psychic mulch.
Dancing Earth performed Rulan Tangen's idea of indigenous American idioms, "Walking on the Edge of Water," which featured various shades of azure fabric, striking white or blue patterns painted on the skin, and terra-cotta bowls.
Costume converted from snuff bottles Open image in new window A long cut-out shoulder one-piece dress that shapes like a container, with a design similar to patterns painted inside traditional snuff bottles.
In a key experiment published in 2000, Mandyam Srinivasan and Shawu Zhang, neurobiologists at Australian National University in Canberra, Jürgen Tautz of the University of Würzburg in Germany, and their colleagues tested this idea by training bees to fly down tunnels with different patterns painted inside.
The abstract emblem has several incarnations: a Minimalist stainless steel wall sculpture called "Bright Shiny Future"; an illuminated sign on a pristine white podium; and the repeated element in an allover pattern painting.
Several rudimentary paintings titled "I Am Turning Into Mist" reiterate a fluorescent honeycomb pattern painted on the gallery's windows.
Nail art – the fashion for intricately patterned painted nails – has had a great Olympics.
