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

Using oil paints to create bright, sweeping strokes and cutting canvases apart to sew them together in new ways, Hurtado questioned the abstraction of the phrase “I am.”

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Askren prefers to use oil paints, opting for a less technical and more romanticized re-creation of the homes.

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In the most flamboyant gesture, a large cascade of lace in watery white oil paint falls from Mariana’s left hand, gently pressed against her velvet dress rather than tightly grasped.

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Glenys has never used a paint brush, instead preferring the "immediacy" of working oil paint with torn pieces of fabric and her fingers.

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The worthy effort to emphasize that much of the artist’s inventive genius — unfurling in thousands of manuscript pages, rather than oil paint and tempera — makes the dull staging a perhaps unavoidable conceit.

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