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 for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of the world. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser colour, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark". But the process is slower, especially when one layer of paint needs to be allowed to dry before another is applied.

तैलरंगचित्रण ही तैलरंगांनी चित्रे रंगवण्याची तंत्रपद्धत आहे. या पद्धतीत वाळणाऱ्या तेलाच्या माध्यमात रंग मिसळून चित्रे रंगवतात. तैलरंगासाठी अनेक प्रकारांची तेले, उदा. जवसाचे तेल, अक्रोडाचे तेल, सॅफ्लॉवर तेल, पॉपीबियांचे ते इत्यादी, माध्यम म्हणून वापरली जातात. मध्ययुगीन युरोपात विशेषकरून जवसाचे तेल तैलरंगचित्रणासाठी माध्यम म्हणून लोकप्रिय होते.