paint something in

I'm not trying to paint her in a bad way.

What was the ground for painting the future in that dark way?

These were painted in the first years of the century.

To my knowledge these areas have not been painted in 12 years.

The men also had one eye painted in the middle of their head.

He has painted over his own work many times, in the same space.

On the wall behind them, my mother had painted some words in white.

He first painted her in 1906 when she was 18.

She first painted in 1989 at the age of about 45.

They all painted in ways that were quite different to each other.