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Definition of Oil color
1. Noun. Oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Color
Literary usage of Oil color
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"As an oil color it darkens gradually in an ... is chiefly available for distemper
and fresco painting, and is not much used as an oil color. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Nearly transparent in water or oil-color and permanent. Artificial Ultramarine (new
blue, ... Produces a good oil color but permanence is doubted. ..."
3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1908)
"oil color J., 32, 1973-4.—By means of the apparatus described above the author
... oil color J., 33, 59-60.—The author experimented on zinc oxide ground in ..."
4. Annual Report (1906)
"Printing on cloth with dyes or oil color. 2. Printing on paper with water color.
... Printing on silk, linen and cotton, in oil color.) In Fig. ..."
5. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"Parsley Oil. Color and properties: A colorless or pale greenish-yellow liquid;
strong Constants: Specific gravity 1.07. odor of parsley. ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"This is the strongest distinction between the methods of water-color and oil-color
work, for, in oil color, the work may be changed as many times as the ..."
7. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1899)
"tation 23. i°, equal to six and seven-tenths per cent. oil: color, lemon peel only.
4. " Ten Cent Lemon :" Alcohol, 71.7 percent.; rotation 21.5°, ..."
8. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"This finish consists of a coat of oil color prepared with lead. Where the work
is not very dirty this kind of painting will answer every purpose, ..."
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