Process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil.
1 Yesterday she was painting in oils .
2 Yet the worst painting in oils that ever hung at Somerset House resembles the original in many more particulars.
3 The latter had the secret of painting in oils , and yielded to Castagno's entreaties to impart it to him.
4 Her weekly Bible-reading, painting in oils and in water-colors, needle-work, and other household duties, left her no idle moment.
5 It was the kind of sky that makes even the most prosaic person discover a deeply buried urge to start painting in oils .
6 He had once experimented at painting in oils , he had tried his hand at the stylus, he had made a few figurines in modeling-wax.
7 A grand piano, luxurious chairs, gigantic Boston ferns, Tiffany lamps, and a large painting in oils above the fireplace-ofa child with long curls.
8 Jackson's first attempt at a painting in oils was a copy of a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds lent to him by Sir George Beaumont.
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