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* An Indian camouflaging his horse in the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' film ''Daisy Town'' swipes his brush back and forth on the horse, and behold! the horse is coated in an elaborate landscape.

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* An Indian camouflaging his horse in the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' film ''Daisy Town'' ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown'' swipes his brush back and forth on the horse, and behold! the horse is coated in in... an elaborate landscape.
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* In the WesternAnimation/{{Comi Color Cartoon|s}} ''The Brave Tin Soldier'', the toymaker at the beginning has three tins of paint: Striped Paint, Dotted Paint and Soldier Paint. He paints the tin soldiers by applying a blob of Soldier Paint to the head of each one, and it arranges itself into the colors of the soldier's face and uniform as it runs down their bodies.
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* Some of the Rainbow Pool paintbrushes from ''Website/{{Neopets}}''. And the Chia pops, the transmogrification potions, and the Lab Ray colors.

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* Some Many of the Rainbow Pool paintbrushes paint brushes from ''Website/{{Neopets}}''. And They come in patterns like speckled, spotted, rainbow, and split (half orange, half purple). Then there are the Chia pops, ones that can completely change the transmogrification potions, pet's form and the Lab Ray colors.outfit, like Halloween and Tyrannian.
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* At a time when chromakey was still a novelty, the syndicated children's show ''Hobo Kelly'' included a segment in which Kelly (Sally Baker) would "paint a picture" -- with a large paintbrush and a can of blue paint to which the chroma-keyer was tuned, on a sheet of glass -- with a film clip keyed in, which would then come to life when she'd covered the entire visible surface.
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* In one episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim claims to have a machine that can scan anything and make a color of it. Perfectly reasonable at first, but then Tim scans Al, produces "A nice can of Al", and proceeds to paint his portrait on a wall with a paint roller. Everyone else is shocked or amused by this, so in-universe it's probably just a magic trick (possibly done the way the ''Mission Impossible'' example below handled it).

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* In one episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim claims to have a machine that can scan anything and make a color of it. Perfectly reasonable at first, but then Tim scans Al, produces "A nice can of Al", and proceeds to paint his portrait on a wall with a paint roller. Everyone else is shocked or amused by this, so in-universe it's probably just a magic trick (possibly done the way the ''Mission Impossible'' example below handled it).trick.
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* In the Literature/LittleGoldenBooks "Santa's Workshop", one of the elves is painting a checkerboard using red-and-black checkerboard paint.
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* Done in one early episode of ''Series/MissionImpossible'' with an explanation - the portrait had already been painted on the easel, and what the team member acting as artist was really doing was stripping away the second layer of paint concealing it.

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* Done in one early episode of ''Series/MissionImpossible'' with an explanation - -- the portrait had already been painted on the easel, and what the team member acting as artist was really doing was stripping away the second layer of paint concealing it.
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** In ''The Goodies and the Beanstalk'', during the ''Series/It'sAKnockout'' competition, while the other competitors struggle with putting up the wallpaper, Graeme produces a roller which paints a floral pattern on a navy background on the segment of wall.

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** In ''The Goodies and the Beanstalk'', during the ''Series/It'sAKnockout'' ''It's A Knockout'' competition, while the other competitors struggle with putting up the wallpaper, Graeme produces a roller which paints a floral pattern on a navy background on the segment of wall.
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**In ''The Goodies and the Beanstalk'', during the ''Series/It'sAKnockout'' competition, while the other competitors struggle with putting up the wallpaper, Graeme produces a roller which paints a floral pattern on a navy background on the segment of wall.
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* ''Series/TheGoodies'' acquire the nation's art collection to stop wealthy Americans buying it, but end up stuck with the bill. After all their efforts to foist the cost off to the National Gallery fail, Tim invites the Americans back in, but now they're only interested in a single painting, ''The Monarch of the Glen'' by Sir Edwin Landseer which Bill refuses to part with. Graeme then produces a roller brush which paints ''Monarch of the Glen'' over every painting they have.

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* ''Series/TheGoodies'' acquire the nation's art collection to stop wealthy Americans from buying it, but end up stuck with the bill. After all their efforts to foist the cost off to the National Gallery fail, Tim invites the Americans back in, but now they're only interested in a single painting, ''The Monarch of the Glen'' by Sir Edwin Landseer which Bill refuses to part with. Graeme then produces a roller brush which that paints ''Monarch of the Glen'' over every painting they have.



* In "WesternAnimation/TheVanishingPrivate", WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck paints a field cannon with red, green and yellow stripes, and black polka dots. All at once, with a single brush and bucket.

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* In "WesternAnimation/TheVanishingPrivate", WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck paints a field cannon with red, green green, and yellow stripes, and black polka dots. All at once, with a single brush and bucket.



* In the ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' cartoon "The Dancing Fool", while moving to the top of a building on a scaffolding, Bimbo and Koko end up spilling black paint on a hippo below them who's sleeping while standing up. The paint that falls on his white clothes ends up forming perfectly even horizontal stripes, making him look like an [[InstitutionalApparel escaped prisoner.]] A passing by police officer clubs him in the head with a billystick before dragging him away.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' cartoon "The Dancing Fool", while moving to the top of a building on a scaffolding, Bimbo and Koko end up spilling black paint on a hippo below them who's sleeping while standing up. The paint that falls on his white clothes ends up forming perfectly even horizontal stripes, making him look like an [[InstitutionalApparel escaped prisoner.]] A passing by passing-by police officer clubs him in the head with a billystick before dragging him away.



* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrographics_%28printing%29 Water transfer printing]] is freakishly close to being this in real life. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFSoiCo-lA&feature=youtu.be&t=115 In this video,]] for example, you can see a wheel being painted ''paisley'' by dipping it in a vat.

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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrographics_%28printing%29 Water transfer printing]] is freakishly close to being this in real life. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFSoiCo-lA&feature=youtu.be&t=115 In this video,]] video]], for example, you can see a wheel being painted ''paisley'' by dipping it in a vat.



* There was a time period when this was a classic magic trick (around when the popular look for magicians was to be "professors" giving "lectures on the latest scientific curiosities"). Prestidigitation-based solutions aside, the public wasn't generally familiar with the variety of chemicals which dry clear onto a canvas and change into varying colors when mixed with water (the ''other'' kind of "solutions"), making this easy.

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* There was a time period when this was a classic magic trick (around when the popular look for magicians was to be "professors" giving "lectures on the latest scientific curiosities"). Prestidigitation-based solutions aside, the public wasn't generally familiar with the variety of chemicals which that dry clear onto a canvas and change into varying colors when mixed with water (the ''other'' kind of "solutions"), making this easy.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' cartoon "The Dancing Fool", while moving to the top of a building on a scaffolding, Bimbo and Koko end up spilling black paint on a hippo below them who's sleeping while standing up. The paint that falls on his white clothes ends up forming perfectly even horizontal stripes, making him look like an [[InstitutionalApparel escaped prisoner.]] A passing by police officer clubs him in the head with a billystick before dragging him away.
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* In one episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim claims to have a machine that can scan anything and make a color of it. Perfectly reasonable at first, but then Tim scans Al, produces "A nice can of Al", and proceeds to paint his portrait on a wall with a paint roller. Everyone else is shocked or amused by this, so in-universe it's probably just a magic trick.

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* In one episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim claims to have a machine that can scan anything and make a color of it. Perfectly reasonable at first, but then Tim scans Al, produces "A nice can of Al", and proceeds to paint his portrait on a wall with a paint roller. Everyone else is shocked or amused by this, so in-universe it's probably just a magic trick.trick (possibly done the way the ''Mission Impossible'' example below handled it).
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* In one anthology comic, a man sarcastically asks a delivery boy to [[SnipeHunt bring him impossible objects]], like a giant hook that can be hung on thin air, which the cheerful boy inexplicably provides anyway. One of them is striped paint. It's eventually revealed that the delivery boy is from the future, and those impossible items are not so impossible there.
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Graeme, not Graham.


* ''Series/TheGoodies'' acquire the nation's art collection to stop wealthy Americans buying it, but end up stuck with the bill. After all their efforts to foist the cost off to the National Gallery fail, Tim invites the Americans back in, but now they're only interested in a single painting, ''The Monarch of the Glen'' by Sir Edwin Landseer which Bill refuses to part with. Graham then produces a roller brush which paints ''Monarch of the Glen'' over every painting they have.

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* ''Series/TheGoodies'' acquire the nation's art collection to stop wealthy Americans buying it, but end up stuck with the bill. After all their efforts to foist the cost off to the National Gallery fail, Tim invites the Americans back in, but now they're only interested in a single painting, ''The Monarch of the Glen'' by Sir Edwin Landseer which Bill refuses to part with. Graham Graeme then produces a roller brush which paints ''Monarch of the Glen'' over every painting they have.

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