Many artists, especially those working in more traditional styles, still use oil sketches today.

A Manhattan gallery recently featured some of his oil sketches.

If in oil paint it is called an oil sketch.

Seurat made many careful small oil sketches for his larger works.

At their best, the oil sketches in this show have a blessed felicity of hand and eye.

What exactly does "oil sketch" mean in connection with Rubens, and why is it so important?

But it is in the drawings and oil sketches for other, final works of art that his talents are best appreciated.

His most active period, though, came after 1920, when for more than a decade he did oil sketches of woods, meadows, and hills.

Before starting on the main canvas Roberts "made tiny drawings and an oil sketch of how he wanted the scene to look."

Some of her own early 19th-century French drawings, oil sketches and small bronzes are on display.