definition of oil painting

Oil painting (an oil painting; a painting in oils) is easy to finish (flax-oil, poppy oil, walnut oil) paint to reconcile, in linen, cardboard or wood on the production of a painting. The use of paint thinner for the remand of the stem of turpentine and oil-Flax. Screen attached by the pigments have a stronger hardness, when the screen after drying, to maintain long-term luster. Western oil painting is the main kind of painting.