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oil paintings

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plural of oil painting

as in paintings

a picture created with oil paint hung a beautiful oil painting of the bay on the living room wall

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Recent Examples of oil paintings This includes Vera Edwards, who has crafted 44 exquisite oil paintings for the rooms, and discovered that her great-grandmother’s mosaic had been on the original walls in the 1960s. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026 According to Shadwick, Sanborn also gave some of these early oil paintings new, misleading titles, and assumed Hopper had conceived of the compositions himself, inspired by his surroundings in Nyack. — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026 Canaletto, a prominent member of the Venetian school, is best known for his breathtaking oil paintings of Venice and London. — News Desk, Artforum, 15 Oct. 2026 The interiors manage to ooze heritage without needing oil paintings of hounds or floral pelmets. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 The walls are decorated in eye-catching oil paintings of enigmatic, forlorn individuals who compose themselves in much the same manner as the café’s real clientele. — James Marsh, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026 There are also hundreds of his own charcoal drawings and oil paintings, most of which are of Dolores, his female alter ego. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2026 And on Saturday, Auburn’s defensive stop an inch short of the goal line to beat Baylor 17-16 was the stuff of oil paintings. — Mike Griffith, AJC.com, 6 Sep. 2026 As usual, the Alley Art Festival on Saturday drew crowds who browsed at dozens of tents featuring oil paintings, sculptures, sketches, jewelry, pottery and other artwork along Water Street Mall and Downer Place. — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

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The National Gallery of Art acquired two paintings by the artist in 2014.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
The home’s character especially comes through in its artwork—namely the large-scale paintings hung throughout the living and dining spaces.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of paintings

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This deal includes a T-PEN stylus with 4,096 pressure levels, making creating digital art and writing feel as natural as possible without lugging around all your paints, pens, and canvases.

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
Like late de Kooning, the picture plane has been emptied of people, just Alex and his canvases.

— Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

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