The walls were covered with cheap paint, which blotched where it was thin and peeled where the painters had bothered to apply several coats.

It is normally a "cheap" paint used in theatrical backdrops or in grade school art classes.

The shiny black of the cheap paint on the top of one of the masks caught a high light.

He was at times driven to use tea-towels for canvas, and cheaper paints whose colour was impermanent.

The unscrupulous paint seller can produce a cheaper paint by adding water, which is the least expensive component in the formula.

He bought a "Descent of Christ" sculpture, covered with cheap black paint, at the 26th Street flea market, for $65.

Whitewash is a paint like covering of hydrated lime or a cheap white paint.

"I bought a bunch of cheap paint at Wal-Mart and I started making big words on them," he said.

One coat of cheap paint accentuated rather than hid the run of a poor grain that Josh's eye picked out almost automatically, from long experience.

Others, just barely visible, stare quietly from behind coats of cheap white paint.