History Main / PolkaDotPaint

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

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Pac-Man}}'' episode "Invasion of the Pac-Pups", Pac-Man and his neighbor Morris are painting a garage:
-->'''Pac-Man:''' What color is this, anyway?
-->'''Morris:''' Pink polka-dot.

* ''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 Trust 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.

** Earlier in the season, Rainbow Dash used the pool of it in her own front yard as war paint as part of an ATeamMontage; it appeared as red, yellow, and green stripes.

* In the ''{{Pac-Man}}'' episode "Invasion of the Pac-Pups", Pac-Man and his neighbor Morris are painting a garage:

* One Norman Hunter book had the protagonists needing to fulfil a promise by painting with striped paint. They faked the effect by painting the stripes in advance and whitewashing over them. The 'striped paint' they then demonstrated was water, which removed the whitewash and left the stripes.

Sometimes, cartoon characters will paint with one or two strokes in colour combinations that simply cannot be done that way in the real world, such as stripes, checks, polka dots, or even more elaborate patterns.

Finding one of these might be assigned to a naive person as a SnipeHunt.
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!!Examples:

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* In the Modern Madcaps cartoon "Travelaffs", a passenger has his bag checked: A few strokes with a broad brush, and it's painted with a checkerboard pattern.
* In "The Vanishing Private", DonaldDuck paints a field cannon with red, green and yellow stripes, and black polka dots. All at once, with a single brush and bucket.

* ''TinyToonAdventures'' would continue the LooneyTunes tradition from time to time.

* Wile E. Coyote has created painted tunnels by this means.

* Some of the Rainbow Pool paintbrushes from ''{{NeoPets}}''.

* In one episode of ''My Little Pony: FriendshipIsMagic'', it's shown that rainbows are this. Pinkie Pie dips a hoof in the liquid rainbow and it retains seven distinct stripes of color, despite dripping off her hoof. She then ''licks'' it...and [[FireBreathingDiner starts breathing multicolored fire!]]

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* Some of the Rainbow Pool paintbrushes from ''{{Neopets}}''.

* In the Modern Madcaps cartoon "Travelaffs," a passengers has his bag checked: A few strokes with a broad bush, and it's painted with a checkerboard pattern.
* In "The Vanishing Private," DonaldDuck paints a field cannon with red, green, and yellow stripes, and black polka dots. All at once, with a single brush and bucket.
* In "Easter Yeggs," BugsBunny paints Elmer's head blue with yellow polka dots in two strokes.

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

* In one of the episodes of ''Rockin' Kats'' a paint was used which made white-red striped paint for every odd swipe and blue-yellow polka dot paint for every even swipe.

* In one of the episodes of ''Rockin' Kats'' a paint was used which made white-blue striped paint for every odd swipe and blue-yellow polka dot paint for every even swipe.

Examples:

* One type of SnipeHunt is to send someone out looking for striped or tartan paint.