All are skillfully painted, but they do not mean a great deal.

He stared at a skillfully painted nude.

The door to this room was metal, skillfully painted to look like panelled wood, and it contained three bolt locks.

The strong shape of the skillfully painted hand and pipe does much to stabilize the somewhat over-life-size figure against the large, bright background.

The skillfully painted portraits of the individuals make it obvious that these are real people and not types.

It was a skillfully painted miniature.

He thought it was possible that someone had skillfully painted the feather onto the stone.

This skillfully painted abstraction is urban in atmosphere, and its mood one of controlled anger.

He had to admire her; there was no trace of the portrait she had so skillfully painted of Trang.

A lacquer painting with an intricate Persian-style design sells for about $20, and a skillfully painted box runs about $5.