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The absolute majority of paintings are made with oil paint on canvas. Oil pain is nowadays bought in tubes, looks fat and oily but mor or less shiny when dry. Canvas is the type of cloth most often used to paint on.

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Oil painting is usually done ON canvas. Oil is the medium, canvas is the surface receiving the medium. Other media (such as acrylic and tempera) may be used on canvas as well.

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Yup! Oils are just a different kind of paint, just like watercolor paints and acrylic paints. Oil paints will take 24 hours or more to dry if you paint with them.

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It is simply a canvas.

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Exactly that: an oil painting on canvas.

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answer is : Canvas oil painting.

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