oil paint
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of oil paint
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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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.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024
Expect quantum physics and oil paint, AI and video art, climate change and sculpture.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024
Victor Estrada’s loose, abstract paintings are vaguely scatological, the excretions of oil paint creating playful, self-contained landscapes of organic imagination confined within the four edges of a canvas.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023
When you hear the word “art,” does your mind immediately go to paintings — oil paint on panel or watercolors on canvas?
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023
But because oil paint is expensive, he continues to use other media: he draws with charcoal and a carpenters pencil.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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