How to Use oil paint in a Sentence

oil paint

noun
  • Collages made from oil paint, jute and rough canvas hung on the walls.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Think of it as the difference between oil paint and a canvas wash.
    — Alice Hart-Davis, ELLE, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Students who want to paint must buy their own brushes and panels, but all oil paint is provided.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
  • Commercially available acrylics and oil paint are made up of tiny pigments.
    — CNN, 3 June 2021
  • The oil paint on the cleaning rag began to resemble a woman in distress.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Otero noticed the pile of dry oil paint that had accumulated on his palette.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Light and humidity eat away at all oil paints, but the most vibrant colors have the farthest to fall.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Gibson used charcoal, pencil, water colors and oil paint to create her works of art.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2024
  • Experiencing art, whether through melody or oil paint, elicits in us a range of emotions.
    — Liz Tormes, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The key development in the sixties was Frankenthaler’s turn from oil paint to acrylic.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Askren prefers to use oil paints, opting for a less technical and more romanticized re-creation of the homes.
    — Jessie Schiewe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The artist works most frequently with diluted oil paints but sometimes shifts to fast-drying egg tempera.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • After years of collage, oil paint, and acrylic, switching to pastel was a revelation.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 29 July 2021
  • Things might have been different for Mickalene Thomas if oil paint wasn’t so expensive.
    — Shane O’Neill, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • If this is a concern of yours, look for an art set that does not include oil paints and always check what ingredients are in the supplies.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Her main ingredient is oil paint, never acrylic—building up through many layers to a lush translucency.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Valdez has kept the room intentionally warm, hoping to speed up the drying of the oil paints in the Jordan piece.
    — Steven Vargas, ARTnews.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Shen also was an accomplished artist, primarily working with oil paints.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2024
  • In her teens, Wei Wei’s teachers encouraged her to start using oil paint rather than the easier to work with acrylic.
    — Nicole Demarco, Vogue, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The students use oil paint and get individual assistance during the three hours of painting.
    — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
  • NFTs are not a new artistic medium in the way that oil paint, printmaking, photography or video art were.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
  • In some cases, the surfaces even appear to undulate, thanks to the inclusion of beeswax, which lent his oil paint a sculptural quality.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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