"Paint me a Murder", episode number I-don't-know-how-many in the overall disappointing series "Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense" starts out intriguing, but - alas - rapidly falls apart. Luke Lorenz, a painter, is at work near the coast when he suddenly packs up all his equipment, steps into a sloop, and heads out to the open sea where he commits suicide. Of course, this is part of a bigger and more fiendish plan. With the wisdom that an artist's work is a lot more valuable when dead, Luke and his gorgeous wife Sandra faked Luke's death, so that Sandra can sell his work at galleries while Luke paints new stuff while living isolated in the attic.
This is another one of those typical "it seemed like a brilliant idea at the time" thriller-plots. Their plan succeeds at first, but backfires just as quickly. Sandra falls in love with the gallery owner, Luke's friends and fellow artists call out shenanigans, and Luke himself goes mentally berserk in his attic. Anyone could have guessed stuff like this would happen, but not Sandra and Luke.
"Paint me a Murder", like pretty much every episode in this series, is derivative and outstaying its welcome with at least half an hour. The only aspects worth mentioning are the beauty of Michelle Philips, and the morbidity of Luke's supposedly post-mortem paintings. They do look cool.