Painting with oil is a very fine way of painting the canvas. Classic paintings like the Mona Lisa were oil-painted, along with beautiful Impressionist paintings such as those by Monet or Van Gogh Purchase good quality oil painting materials, the best you can afford . If you're just starting out, you can find many of these things by looking at gift sets that include all or most of them, sometimes in a nice wooden storage box or a table easel. What you will need at a minimum is: A stretched canvas the size of the painting you would like to do. It's a good thing to also purchase several small "canvas boards" for practice and preliminary studies. You can also use canvas paper or canvas that comes in pads, as long as they say they're suited for oil painting and are gessoed. Try to choose a small board with the exact proportions of the stretched canvas but if it's not, get one larger so that you can mark up that shape on it. Tubes of oil paint...