oil painting
noun
1
a
: the act or art of painting in oil colors
b
: a picture painted in oils
2
: painting that uses pigments originally ground in oil
Synonyms of oil painting
Examples of oil painting in a Sentence
He studied oil painting in college.
A large oil painting hangs above the mantel.
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And to avoid the appearance of simple wooden dolls as characters, Lavis and Szczerbowski had the heads of their puppets designed to look like old wood with multilayered oil painting that in reality are silicon molds placed on white plastic.
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Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
The 20-foot walls are hung salon-style with gilt frames surrounding oil paintings flirting at once with modernism and Renaissance styles.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
This season, production designer Guy Barnes and his wife, set decorator Wendy Ozols-Barnes, introduced new sets like Vaggan’s bunker, which is layered with a fascinating collection of vintage weapons, oil painting supplies for Gunther and vinyl records.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
Typically, Rockwell created his Saturday Evening Post covers using oils, then the magazine would reproduce those oil paintings.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
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Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
The 20-foot walls are hung salon-style with gilt frames surrounding oil paintings flirting at once with modernism and Renaissance styles.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
This season, production designer Guy Barnes and his wife, set decorator Wendy Ozols-Barnes, introduced new sets like Vaggan’s bunker, which is layered with a fascinating collection of vintage weapons, oil painting supplies for Gunther and vinyl records.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
Typically, Rockwell created his Saturday Evening Post covers using oils, then the magazine would reproduce those oil paintings.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for oil painting
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“Oil painting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20painting. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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