zOil Painting, why must you be so difficult to prepare for? I've been thinking about painting for weeks but stalled by the looming requisite mess. Huzzah, it's been overcome. Each time I oil paint my preference for the medium is affirmed. I took my first class last fall at SF CC and am ready for the next installment, unfortunately I must wait until I am gainfully employed and not an itinerant anymore. Painting endeavours were a little Skagit Valley landscape abstracted (I think I would like to do more of these in different colors) and then a little still life practice with the last piece a fruit in the house, a sad little apple.