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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Step into the lobby and you’re immediately greeted by hulking oil paintings and standout works — around 130 pieces in all mediums sprinkled throughout the hotel.
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Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
La Duna Gallery features oil paintings and glass mosaics by owners John and Dana Maher.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2025
And then the close-ups are those hyperrealistic oil paintings.
—Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
Safran takes ceramics and oil painting classes, attends water aerobics, plays bridge, and goes to art workshops.
—Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2025
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Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
La Duna Gallery features oil paintings and glass mosaics by owners John and Dana Maher.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2025
And then the close-ups are those hyperrealistic oil paintings.
—Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
Safran takes ceramics and oil painting classes, attends water aerobics, plays bridge, and goes to art workshops.
—Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 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 8 Jan. 2026.
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