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oil paint

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of oil paint1

First recorded in 1780–90
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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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