oil paint
oil paint — noun
1. A thick, slow-drying painting medium created by mixing powdered colour pigment w
A thick, slow-drying painting medium created by mixing powdered colour pigment with a drying oil such as linseed oil, used especially by artists to create pictures on canvas, wood, or board.
Andrés mixed oil paint with linseed oil to help the colour spread across the canvas.
collocation: oil paint + linseed oil
Megan bought three new tubes of oil paint for her weekend landscape workshop.
countable: tube of oil paint
The strong smell of oil paint filled the studio while Feng worked on his portrait.
Oil paint stays wet longer than watercolour, so artists can blend colours over several days.
Jiwoo prefers oil paint over acrylic because the colours look richer when dry.
- oil colour
British English term, more common among professional artists; 'oil colour' emphasises the pigment, not the binder
- oil
shorter informal form used in context ('she paints in oils')
- watercolour
uses water as the binder instead of oil dries much faster
- acrylic paint
synthetic paint that dries to a waterproof finish within minutes, unlike the slow-drying oil paint
用法筆記
Oil paint is most often uncountable ('she works mainly in oil paint') but becomes countable when referring to individual colour varieties or product ranges ('these oil paints from the Italian brand dry very fast'). The drying time is slow by design, which lets artists rework areas for hours or even days.