WordNet
Usage examples of "paint a picture".
He had followed the path to this strange place of the standing stones to paint a picture of an elephant, but he needed inspiration, and it wasn't coming.
Each time we get ready for a big hunt, we paint a picture of the animal we want to catch.
Watch the ways in which he is able to include all kinds of people, and different dimensions of experience, to paint a picture that in the largest possible sense parallels the world in which he lived.
If he wanted to paint a picture with himself in it, who was there to say he could not?
Gloha was startled to see him paint a picture of her, with her wings, though she had none here.
He delivered high-up horseback opinions on everything of which we spoke, of politics, of the husbandry of the countryside we passed through, even of the proper way to paint a picture.
Got to paint a picture of Alex, terribly important to paint Alex, Alex who'd been in hundreds of movies, and never been painted right.
You should then paint a picture of this room -- indistinguishable from a photograph.