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Hitler surrounded himself not with charts and statistics, but with icons of Germany’s glorious past captured in oil paint like insects in amber.
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Bryce Hoffman, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Most of these sets come with different types of paints, including oil paints, watercolors and acrylics.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 June 2025
Instead of applying thick globs of paint to the canvas, Turner painted multiple layers of a thin, watery oil paint mixture.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
These paths have included, so far, working with hair lotion, shea-butter soap, wax, shelving, at least one piano, mirrors, tiles, vinyl records, and old wooden floors as well as such conventional art products as oil paint and canvas.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
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Bryce Hoffman, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Most of these sets come with different types of paints, including oil paints, watercolors and acrylics.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 June 2025
Instead of applying thick globs of paint to the canvas, Turner painted multiple layers of a thin, watery oil paint mixture.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
These paths have included, so far, working with hair lotion, shea-butter soap, wax, shelving, at least one piano, mirrors, tiles, vinyl records, and old wooden floors as well as such conventional art products as oil paint and canvas.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Oil paint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20paint. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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