The shop doubles as Krasimir's workshop, so you can watch him painstakingly painting while you browse.

On a recent afternoon, in the neutral light of the center's north-facing room, Montserrat LeMeuse painstakingly painted in the tiny spider-web cracks in an 1892 oil portrait of John Guy Vassar, from a private collection.

Contrasting multicolored stripes are actually lengths of ribbons that she stapled up - "a way of modifying a wall without permanently and painstakingly painting it."

From one vial, he took a small applicator brush and painstakingly painted a thin strip of growth medium between two silver tracings of circuitry within the case.

From an array of brushes, she took a very fine one and chose a tawny shade from her palette to painstakingly paint a pear, in much the same way as an artist would paint on a canvas.

Plus, no one has the time to painstakingly paint a face: we want makeup we can apply in the back seat of a cab.

He imitated the dotted effect of commercial newsprint by painstakingly painting each dot with the rubber at the end of a pencil.

M&M/Mars and its agency, BBDO New York, part of Omnicom Group, won the Grand Effie for a humorous campaign for Snickers candy bars; one commercial showed a worker on a football field, painstakingly painting the word "Chefs" in the end zone.

A draftsman in Hackensack, N.J., painstakingly painted his 1985 Buick Skyhawk a fine red plaid, and a musician in nearby Montclair drives a 1991 Toyota pickup that has an earth goddess on the rear door.

In the living room his wife sat in her blue smock, painstakingly painting an unfired ceramic piece with glaze; her tongue protruded and her eyes glowed.