Canvas
Canvas noun - A picture created with oil paint.
Usage example: one canvas by Picasso is worth more money than most of us can imagine
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Disney's Tangled was originally supposed to look like an oil painting on canvas, but the technology was never perfected, so it ended up being done with conventional computer animation.
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Compare Portal Picture, its oil-and-canvas counterpart.
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Ross worked in oil paints and taught a method called "wet-on-wet painting", where the canvas would be coated with wet white paint and other colors would be laid over it, allowing for a variety of blending techniques.
Source: Series / The Joy of Painting
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