(idiomatic) To describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner.

(art) A style of painting having abrupt transitions between areas of (often plain) color.

A species of wader, Rostratula australis, endemic to Australia.

plural of Australian painted snipe

Callixalus pictus, a species of frog found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.

Neacomys pictus, a species of Panamanian bristly mouse.

A species of painted frog, Latonia nigriventer.

plural of African painted frog

Alternative form of a picture is worth a thousand words

(chiefly UK) Never-ending; said of a task which will never be completed due to the perpetual cycle of having to recommence as soon as one has reached the end, or of efforts that are in vain because of this.