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

oil paint [′ȯil ‚pānt]
(materials)
A paint made with a vegetable oil as the filmogen.


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The artist used richly-hued oil paints and metallic leafing applied in bold, sweeping lines to compose a dynamic scene of ships at sea.
She then uses the textured canvas to create a final painting using oil paints.
Thornton Dial in the 21st Century is a full-color, coffee-table artbook of the fantastic works of Thornton Dial, whose often abstract works redefine the concept of "multimedia"--instead of just traditional oil paints on canvas or the like, he was known to use oil with cloth, tin, clothing, enamel, string, rope, spray paint, and any number of other unusual articles to create truly distinctive and three-dimensional canvas creations, not to mention sculptures.
 
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