Painter Smurf (Empath stories)

"Bonjour, M'sieu Empath. Parle-vous en Schtroumpf?"

Painter is a Smurf character who appears in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. While similar in personality to his cartoon show counterpart, his character traits differ in that his artistic skills are limited to painting and sketches; another Smurf named Sculptor handles the craft of sculpture.

He is a surviving member of the Schtroumpf clan of Smurfs and thus he tends to speak occasionally in Schtroumpf, which is the equivalent to the human language of French. Painter personally feels that Schtroumpf is the true language of the Smurfs and feels that every Smurf should learn how to speak it, though it is rarely used by anyone else except for Papa Smurf and Brainy. Empath eventually learned how to speak in Schtroumpf and at times will communicate with Painter in the same language. Being the Smurf who has taught Empath everything he knew about art, Painter is more than impressed to find out that Empath surpasses his painting skills.