"strokes of paint" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the physical act of painting, for example: "She made long, gentle strokes of paint across the canvas."
After the initial strokes of paint dried, he put the canvas panels in storage.
Mr. Goodnough's earlier work, influenced by Mondrian, Matisse and Synthetic Cubism, deployed patches and strokes of paint that suggested tumult and frenetic activity.
She didn't think she was imagining a cross, seeing a cross in some free strokes of paint, but she didn't want to hear someone raise elementary doubts.
In his best-known painting, the 1909 "Stag at Sharkey's," the colliding bodies of the two fighters are defined by sinuous strokes of paint that make their flesh seem almost to meld at impact.
"Painting Materials" is an overhead view of brushes, each described with a few quick strokes of paint, a tin of white lead and a can of mineral spirits, seen from the vantage of the painter standing over them.
Done during or after one of Schwitters's repeated getaways to a remote Norwegian island, it replaces urban detritus with a frond of seaweed and a patch of bark, and adds flickering strokes of paint like water-reflected light.
For the Los Angeles-based Hong, painting serves as a way to let go, lose control, and trust the outcome of each stroke of paint.
If you think about the work that way, then the guitars can be a compositional element, almost like a stroke of paint, an anchor in the composition, or something that is necessary to hold the visual plane.
Mr. Tuymans's paintings, rendered in a restrained palette with fleet brush strokes of wet paint on wet paint, can sometimes seem almost frustratingly detached from their themes, not only because of the evident speed of their production but also because of their oblique, even cryptic imagery.
Schnabel adjusts lights to bring out the textures of the weatherworn brown tarp, on which he has painted, in broad strokes of white paint, a monstrous sort of primitive beast-man, with a leering face, an exposed rib cage, and a pair of clawlike extremities; at the top left, the letters "AZ" have been painted twice in red.
They dumped the patterns in favour of strokes of white paint, wore lighter suits, added some more eucalyptus leaves and did not paint their faces when they performed the original dance at the Olympics yesterday after consulting experts.
