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2. Oil paint - Wikipedia

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   Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. For several centuries the oil painting has been perhaps the most prestigious form in Western art, but oil paint has many practical uses, mainly because it is waterproof. The earliest surviving examples of oil paint ...

3. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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   Oil painting. Mona Lisa was created by Leonardo da Vinci using oil paints during the Renaissance period in the 15th century. Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel or copper ...

4. Paint - Wikipedia

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   Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer. As art, this is used to create an image or images known as a painting. Paint can be made in many colors and types. Most paints are either oil-based or water-based, and each has distinct characteristics.

5. Automotive paint - Wikipedia

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   Automotive paint is paint used on automobiles for both protective and decorative purposes. [1][2] Water-based acrylic polyurethane enamel paint is currently the most widely used paint for reasons including reducing paint's environmental impact. Modern automobile paint is applied in several layers, with a total thickness of around 100 μm (0.1mm).

6. Water miscible oil paint - Wikipedia

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   Water miscible oil paint. Water-miscible oil paint (also called water-soluble oil paint or water-mixable oil paint) is oil paint either engineered or to which an emulsifier has been added, allowing it to be thinned and cleaned up with water. [1] [2] These paints make it possible to avoid using, or at least reduce volatile organic compounds such ...

7. Paint thinner - Wikipedia

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   Paint thinners are diluents and usually refers to a solvent that is used to dilute or "thin" oil-based paints [1][2] — and similar things, such as varnish, which in essence are a colloidal suspension of a solid dispersed in a liquid medium — to reduce the viscosity and so making them 'more liquid'. Typically, this happens after the paint ...