Oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist.
1 He painted in fresco and oil colors , executed miniatures and engravings.
2 I want to have something of you in oil colors .
3 Her works are portraits in miniature, pastel, and oil colors .
4 He began, also, to copy pictures with a pen, and portraits with oil colors .
5 This artist has also given some time to the decoration of terra-cotta in oil colors .
6 Any bright colors which may have faded should be retouched with oil colors before varnishing.
7 In one month more I shall begin my tree in oil colors , with its allegoric garland.
8 On this ground paint with thin oil colors .
9 She suddenly had a mad desire to start painting his face with the new oil colors her mom had bought her.
10 I draw quite well from the patterns set before me, but ere I proceed any further, I wish to paint a tree in oil colors .
11 When dry any bare patches of skin will have a dead appearance and require painting with oil colors thinned with turpentine to reduce the gloss.
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