sentences:  His illness meant that he could only paint for a limited period each day, for perhaps 15 minutes at a time followed by a rest.To compensate as much as he could for the lack of coloured paint, Stanley resorted to using large brush strokes and big areas of solid colour when painting.In September 1942, a few weeks after Stanley began painting the murals, he was informed that his work party was to be sent north to Thailand to work on the Thai-Burma Railway.