Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium[1] to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. The final work is also called a painting.

Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, gesture (as in gestural painting), composition, narration (as in narrative art), or abstraction (as in abstract art).[2] Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism), or political in nature (as in Artivism).

Sderot (Hebrew: שְׂדֵרוֹת, Hebrew pronunciation: [sdeˈʁot], lit. Boulevards) is a western Negev city and former development town in the Southern District of Israel. In 2017 it had a population of 25,138.[1]

Sderot was originally founded in 1951 as a transit camp called Gabim Dorot for Israeli immigrants, primarily from Kurdistan and Iran, who numbered 80 families.[2] The development was located on the land of the Palestininan village of Najd which was depopulated during 1948 Arab-Israeli War[3] and served as part of a chain of settlements designed to block infiltration from Gaza.[4][5] Permanent housing was completed three years after the transit camp’s establishment in 1954[5]. The town was renamed Sderot after the Eucalyptus boulevard planted along the length of the town,[6] whose planting provided employment to the residents of the settlement.