I painted last night! With oils! First time ever - helped that it was monochrome so that my charcoal habits were transferable.
I was anxious for no reason. Thanks for the encouraging words the other day, @CountZero @eylul and @Curator
@jdb @CountZero @eylul @Curator I used to love painting with oils. Got very out of practice teaching Elementary (no toxic solvents allowed in school) and focusing on photography/digital art instead.
@theartguy I was amazed by all of the health and safety precautions. I can see why you can't do this with kids.
@jdb In college we were told that turpentine was too toxic a solvent, so we had to use a safer alternative ... that was still incredibly toxic. Same case in the serigraphy lab, although the year I left they scrapped the oil based inks in favor of water based ones.
@theartguy Had to look up serigraphy. I wish I'd had an art education. Sometimes.
@jdb Then I am partly responsible for you learning something new. That makes this a good day.
And you're clearly getting an art education now, so it's all good.