How to Use oil paint in a Sentence

oil paint

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  • Collages made from oil paint, jute and rough canvas hung on the walls.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Vincent van Gogh, born in 1853, painted en plen air in French fields with globs of bright oil paint.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Think of it as the difference between oil paint and a canvas wash.
    — Alice Hart-Davis, ELLE, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In 2012, the sculpture was vandalized with red oil paint.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • In the new layout, a tripod holds a lamp that illuminates the title, written in oil paint on the wall.
    — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The oil paint on the cleaning rag began to resemble a woman in distress.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 3 Mar. 2023
  • McArthur Binion, 75, is standing over a work in progress, holding three oil paint sticks between the fingers of his left hand.
    — Howie Kahn, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2021
  • For me, there was real joy in the texture of the oil paint and there was something rather touching about seeing this medium used with such panache.
    — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Hampton, says Hearne, was able to research Jones and take the artistic license needed to tell the lawyer's story in oil paint on canvas.
    — Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2022
  • In the three years since then, Ekambaram has branched out into watercolor, clay, acrylic paint, oil paint and reverse glass.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
  • The oil paint is laid on thick, like the most scrumptious cake frosting imaginable, in the portrait of the poet Robert Duncan that his life partner, the artist known as Jess, made in 1965.
    — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Otero noticed the pile of dry oil paint that had accumulated on his palette.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Commercially available acrylics and oil paint are made up of tiny pigments.
    — CNN, 3 June 2021
  • NFTs are not a new artistic medium in the way that oil paint, printmaking, photography or video art were.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Things might have been different for Mickalene Thomas if oil paint wasn’t so expensive.
    — Shane O’Neill, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Experiencing art, whether through melody or oil paint, elicits in us a range of emotions.
    — Liz Tormes, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
  • These were spurred in part by the growing use of oil paint over egg tempera, which allowed for more lavish colors and textures — all the better to depict the one percent.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • The artist works most frequently with diluted oil paints but sometimes shifts to fast-drying egg tempera.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Inspired by the stained glass window in the church, Bethany Blanks created a mixed media piece using digital drawings as well as acrylic and oil paints.
    — Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Luckily, Leonardo’s pupils created a copy using oil paint on canvas that has better stood the test of time.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
  • After years of collage, oil paint, and acrylic, switching to pastel was a revelation.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 29 July 2021
  • And beside oil paint, the use of these oils in finishes like varnish has mostly gone the way of the dodo with the advent of newer binding materials.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
  • It’s as if she’s been carved like an archetypal totem, but with matte and glossy house paint, charcoal and oil paint on canvas rather than with a chisel or an adze from stone or wood.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
  • All grays, browns and dusty whites, Chardin’s earthy and sensuous oil paint draws your eye to the play of delicate surface textures and soft luminosity across the canvas.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The students use oil paint and get individual assistance during the three hours of painting.
    — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
  • Because this product is an oil paint, make sure to have good ventilation, and don’t have any open flames or lighted cigarettes nearby.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • Udell’s home office is cluttered with decades’ worth of mementos, awards, paperwork—and a slew of his own oil paint and watercolor landscapes.
    — Adam Popescu, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • Her main ingredient is oil paint, never acrylic—building up through many layers to a lush translucency.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The red-yellow-blue target, concentric rings in oil paint infused with wax and brushed over newsprint, was at once a flat picture and a material object — an image of a target and an actual one.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The Global Ecobrick Alliance suggests logging each ecobrick with the weight, date, and any other important details, noting that enamel, oil paint, or nail polish all work well for this task.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2022

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