oil paint

noun

1. oil color.
2. a commercial paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle.

oil paint

noun

1. paint made of pigment ground in oil, usually linseed oil, used for oil painting

Word History and Origins

Origin of oil paint¹

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

Whether it’s tools like the magic wand or filters like the oil paint effect, you won’t quickly exhaust everything that Photopea has to offer.

From Popular-Science

While the likes of Masaccio in Italy were painting frescoes, Van Eyck and Van der Weyden had mastered the lustrousness of oil paint.

From Washington Post

She may not hop into a minivan like traditional storm chasers when the sky frowns and grumbles, but very often, she will gather her own equipment — stretched canvas, oil paint, palette and brushes — to observe and document them on paper in real time.

From Ozy

A Briton who’s based in Philadelphia, Hladky assembles his artwork’s underpinnings with thin bamboo sticks and thick twists of oil paint directly from the tube.

From Washington Post

During the day they would paint portraits of Spahn, using oil paint on small canvases that they had brought.

From The Daily Beast

But Marsden Hartley was a 20th-century painter, slow as oil paint from a brush.

From The Daily Beast

Williams works primarily in oil paint sticks and colored pencils.

From The Daily Beast

The canvas of Dark Americano (2012) is covered with both oil paint and dirt.

From The Daily Beast

Tim said to me, “What if someone took a picture on their iPad and then used this method to turn iPad luminescence into oil paint?”

From The Daily Beast

It has become the fashion to say that Whistler had not mastered his trade and could not use oil paint.

From Project Gutenberg

A very light-colored or white feather may be tinted by dissolving some oil paint in the gasoline used for rinsing.

From Project Gutenberg

While oil paint is to be preferred, these colors are readily and quickly applied and form serviceable backgrounds.

From Project Gutenberg

Another way of putting armorial bearings on covers, is to paint them in oil paint.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a sad quality of oil-paint that when it is dry it no longer looks so lovely and shiny as it looks when it is wet.

From Project Gutenberg