I think it was good idea and so did he. Why don't you?
He wanted to get the colours of his landscape in reach.
Vincent Van Gogh
Oil paint and brushes.
No, he did not.
864 paintings by van Gogh are known.
using a paint brush
The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh.
Van Gogh started to paint only after he felt he mastered the technique of drawing. This was in The Hague period. Van Gogh made a few (bad) sketches when in England.
Van Gogh used oil pastels I believe.
In 1881.
He paint for his life
He started to paint in 1880.