Alas, the talent runs from polished professionals to, well, Sunday painters.

The local priest asks the lieutenant, a Sunday painter, to restore the murals in his church.

But their subject matter makes them different from any Sunday painter you ever saw.

The notion of the "Sunday painter" makes her squirm.

Was she simply a Sunday painter, she must have wondered to herself.

He took classes at night while attending high school and remained a Sunday painter throughout most of his life.

Moreover, they resemble the sorts of landscapes that we expect from amateur Sunday painters.

Even if there are no formal requirements, you'll be uncomfortable being the only Sunday painter, say, in a group of serious art students.

A Sunday painter had covered the scrub pines with white sizing fresh from the tube.

Hurm started as a "Sunday painter" and created his individual, substantial oeuvre.