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oil paint

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

[′ȯil ‚pānt]
(materials)
A paint made with a vegetable oil as the filmogen.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

oil paint

A paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle for the pigment.
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I have also used acrylic and oil colours, but watercolours are my favourite.
He paints still life with oil colours featuring a piece of furniture, a garden, washing area; infusing detail that brings it to life and brings routine activities into focus with stunning beauty.
Beltz had been instrumental in securing product donations for the project, including Resilience Exterior Paint from The Sherwin-Williams Company, Purdy applicators and Georgina Artist's Oil Colours from Winsor & Newton and Daler-Rowney.
Winsor's inventiveness led him to patent glass syringes for oil colours but with the invention of collapsible metal tubes by James Goff Rand for artists' colours in 1841, Winsor embarked on perfecting tubes to his own design.
" The new trend is to use oil colours that can be washed," said a potter who's been there for 11 years.
White paint costs buttons and, with a squirt of artists' oil colours, you can whisk it up and make your own shade.
The artist has used a variety of mediums including watercolours, oils, charcoals, pastels and oil colours.
Layers of oil colours are painted on to the skin to give a realistic flesh tone, finished off with "blushing" on the cheeks and other highlighted areas.
Seventy oil colours, such as 'Bowie Spewing' and a tribute to the Queen, go on display next week.
The artists used oil colours, coffee powder, digital photography etc.
I can work with acrylic, oil colours, water colours, charcoal, pastel, calligraphy say anything but I like myself water colour as it is challenging.
In the beginning, Abdulrahman learned how to draw realistically, and then he experimented with water colors, acrylic and finally oil colours. He combines both cold and warm colours like yellow, red, orange, green and blue to portray the Kurdish traditional clothes of which the Kurds are very proud.
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