Oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist.
1 It must never become what mine is- apainter'sbrush, wet, dripping, overflowing with oil colour .
2 You can select a water colour effect, or an oil colour effect or an acrylic paint effect.
3 He used his pencil freely in sketching from nature; and in course of time he showed equal skill in the use of oil colour .
4 The outer walls and beams of the houses are painted with a dark brown oil colour , which gave to the town an indescribably dusky appearance.
5 Is it oil colours I am, or water?
6 The balloon, which was painted with ornaments in oil colours , had a very showy appearance (fig.
7 The first steam-engine I made was employed in grinding oil colours for my father's use in his paintings.
8 When a young girl at school, she had taken lessons in oil colours , and possessed not a little artistic ability.
9 He had the whole ship painted from top to bottom with oil colours ; even the little doors in the cabins were not spared this infliction.
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