Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various media, with unexpected consequences.

One Saturday morning while their parents are away, the three Noonan children decide to paint the house.

Fourteeen-year-old Sunni, her stepbrother Dean, and an art-student friend trace the footsteps of a labyrinth built in Blackhope Tower by a mysterious and brilliant sixteenth-century artist, and suddenly find themselves trapped inside his enchanted painting, trying desperately to get out.

"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...

In this wondrous picture book bursting with mixed-media art, an imaginary garden is the center of a special relationship between a girl and her grandfather.

As an artist demonstrates the strict rules for creating a still life painting, the painting disregards each one as it comes alive and tells its own story.

A child paints with an artist friend who sees and paints only whales. An artist at a lake befriends a young boy and teaches him to paint.

A fairy gets stuck to a girl's painting of her backyard. The girl feeds the fairy and wins an art contest. Afterwards, the fairy grants the girl special talent.