as in painting
a picture created with oil paint
hung a beautiful oil painting of the bay on the living room wall
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Wittenberg has, for the past decade, used a broom instead of a paint brush on her oil paintings.
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Grace Edquist, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
Certified instructors continue teaching his wet-on-wet oil painting technique to the masses, and the Smithsonian acquired several of his works for its permanent collection in 2019.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
Retirement won’t slow her down — Burns looks forward to filling her days with oil painting, Bible study, golf, poker, and Tuesday rounds of golf.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2025
An oil painting by Pablo Picasso, unseen by the public for more than 80 years, will go under the hammer in Paris next month.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
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Grace Edquist, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
Certified instructors continue teaching his wet-on-wet oil painting technique to the masses, and the Smithsonian acquired several of his works for its permanent collection in 2019.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
Retirement won’t slow her down — Burns looks forward to filling her days with oil painting, Bible study, golf, poker, and Tuesday rounds of golf.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2025
An oil painting by Pablo Picasso, unseen by the public for more than 80 years, will go under the hammer in Paris next month.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oil painting
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With an absence of primary source footage or even photographs, The American Revolution relies heavily on familiar Burnsian tracking shots and zooms on paintings.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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The daughter of Veronica Hearst, one of her era’s most stylish society swans, she was raised in a lavish Fifth Avenue apartment designed by Renzo Mongiardino featuring columns, tapestries, and Old Master paintings.—
Derek Blasberg,
Architectural Digest,
5 Nov. 2025
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Participants can sculpt with air-dry clay, paint on canvas, or craft a collage or mixed-media piece such as a design vision board.—
Staff Author,
Southern Living,
9 Nov. 2025
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Yet those soldiers and sailors had to stretch across a vast global canvas, leaving fewer than three in ten of them to try to rout the insurgents in North America.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Oil painting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oil%20painting. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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