Problem in a canvas

Question

I need to erase completely a canvas in which I have drawed images, and I am trying with drawing a rectangle of the etire size of the canvas with the same color but It seems that the images are above the rectangle and nothing happends. this is my paint method, please take a look, thank you very much.
public void paint(Graphics g)
g.setColor(new Color(136,136,251));
g.fillRect(0, 0, getSize().width - 1, getSize().height - 1);
g.drawRect(0, 0, getSize().width - 1, getSize().height - 1);
for(int i = 0; i<image.length ; i++)
if(image!=null)
g.drawImage(image[i], 3 + i * 43, 3, this);

Answer 1

but It seems that the images are above the rectangle Well thats what you code is doing. First your draw a rectangle. Then you paint the images. How would you expect it to work any other way. If you set your image array to be empty, then there will be no images to draw.
By the way, why are you still using a Canvas. You've been told before that you should be using JPanel when using Swing and you should be overriding paintComponent().