At his trial, Mr. Lane requested a crayon so he could color pictures.

My only tutor was one of those paper napkins on which are printed some hundred brightly colored pictures of objects and things in common use, such as bread, cheese, house, sea, sun, chair, etc., with the Welsh name above and the English underneath.

"I like to color pictures," said Barin, dreamily.

Obsessed with U.F.O.'s, Mr. Talpazan, a Romanian immigrant who lives in New York, makes powerfully abstracted, vividly colored diagrammatic pictures of flying saucers.

Its canvases depict abstract towers collapsing, brilliantly colored explosions, heroic portraits of firefighters and a firehouse drawn in pastels, as well as pictures of people mourning, reflecting and rolling up their sleeves to respond.

Show him colorful toys and books with big, brightly colored pictures.

Jump Start: Preschool ($39.95, for computers with Windows; Macintosh versions are due later this month), for instance, offers a variety of simple games, from coloring pictures, matching geometric shapes and playing rhyming games to listening to alphabet songs.

They wanted me to color pictures that were boring and to paste strips of paper from magazines onto cardboard.