oil painter
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- noun
- /ˈɔɪl ˈpeɪntər/
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pintor de óleo
- Some are landscape painters, some are figure painters, some are oil painters, some are ink painters, and that they are conceptual artists, they're installation artists.
- known oil painter
- oil painter finds
Examples
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Many elite women took drawing lessons as part of a genteel education, but Paroy's account testifies to Cabarrus's ambitions as an oil painter and a miniaturist.
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Oil painter and chronic pencil user.
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Maria is an oil painter and has taken her artistic skills with the brush and transformed them to Photoshop.
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Oil Painter Jack Hamilton
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My sense of color derived from my stint as an oil painter, and my feel for composition and design was enhanced by years of being an art director in the publishing world.
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Maui Hands: Two artists-in-residence: Oil painter Melissa Ebeling, doing pet and farm animal portraits.
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Jonathan is a talented oil painter known for his vibrant landscapes.
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The oil painter created stunning portraits that brought the subjects to life.
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Many aspiring oil painters attend workshops to learn new techniques.
Synonyms
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A person who makes art like paintings or sculptures with imagination and feeling
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A person who makes pictures using colour on canvas or paper
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an artist who creates paintings using oil-based paints' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'oil' (the paint medium) with 'painter' (an artist who paints). This simple noun-noun composition is a common, compositional pattern (found across many languages) so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Oil painter comes from the simple image of a painter working with thick oil paint on a canvas, mixing colors and building layers to get deep, shiny tones. So an oil painter is 'an artist who uses oil paints'.