How to use "paints" in a sentence

"Yes." Sala loved painting, but the paints were expensive, so it was something she couldn't do very often.

She brought out her paints, and, sitting in her room, started working on a picture: the green leaves of Gran's Real Space, bright and bursting with life; gray tower blocks in the background

Danny had liked to draw, and the easel, complete with a box of pencils and pens and paints, had been a birthday gift when he was nine