Paint News

While lead in paint has been banned in Europe and the US for years, certain companies still produce lead paint and sell it abroad. There, yet also at home, young children still suffer the consequences: lower IQ, slowed body growth, failure at school.

Truro - Members of the Truro Art Society are celebrating Nova Scotia through art, and a new show is made up of images created through a variety of mediums.

Dursley - A street in Dursley, England, has been painted pink to promote breast cancer awareness. The campaign was ran by a group of local women.

Fayetteville - In her studio space, Dana Idlet was painting something extraordinary. As she listened to music and moved her hand across the canvas with minimal effort and easy grace, her brush strokes looked inspired.

Cheyenne - When police went to the home of a Wyoming man he tried to stop them from using a Taser on him by dumping paint over his body.

Workmen painting white lines on a road left a gap when they came across a dead badger in their path. They painted up to near where the badger lay, then moved around it and continued painting.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo claim to have developed a special paint to prevent wireless signals from being broadcast.

Israel Podolsky of New Port Richey, Florida sits in jail tonight after shoving his 94 year old live-in girlfriend. The spry senior painted their house with the wrong paint according to his girl. When she loudly let her opinion be known he shoved her.

Parking your car under a tree in summer can really damage the vehicle's paintwork as the excrement from birds, bees and plant-louses leave visible marks after just one or two days, according to Germany's technical testing authority DEKRA.

30 different people that influenced my life were painted one on top of another on my torso. I either painted a picture of the person or an object that represents the person.