Just started oil painting!

I just started to go to an oil painting school. As I started to attend an oil painting subject this Feb at uni where I currently go, I soon realised that I had better to gain basic knowledge and skills in advance in order to make the subject study useful. I dropped the subject to defer to next year. I researched about some private oil painting schools around my home area. There are 2 oil painting schools specialized for beginners. I seriously thought about going there. But their daytime class timetables and my own schedule didn't meet. So I thought I need to negotiate with my uni if I can change my timetable...(but it's difficult, I know. I didn't feel like talking with uni staff about that.). Both schools provide night classes, but the location of the 2 schools are in urban area and has no free parking. Also, it's a bit scary place to take public transportation for women alone around 10 pm. I was stuck, although I had a mission to gain basic skills before my next uni year starts.

Four weeks ago, I visited an open studio of a painter with my hubby. I have known about her as a very good watercolour painter. She runs her own school and teaches not only watercolour, but also, acrylic and oil. My hubby asked her about her way of teaching and her career background. He felt she was really trustworthy (as my hubby is in the same industry as hers). He strongly recommended I join her class and he immediately paid 8-week tuition for me. Two days later, I had my first class there. It was like magic. I needed to learn from real basic points such as "what is oil medium?", "how to use palette efficiently", "how I hold a brush" (those things weren't taught at the uni subject)

The teacher gave me a group of very challenging objects. I thought it's impossible for a beginner like me to create a good painting with such objects. However, I think the completed work is at a satisfactory level. It excited myself as well as my husband! If I went to the schools for beginners, I would have needed to start with just triangle and round shapes in monochromatic colour. Even at their advanced beginner's course, the given object is a strip of a ribbon.(it would be boring...) My current oil school is located in a rural area and the scenery I look while driving to the place is very beautiful and fascinating. In reality, carrying oil painting kits and a wet canvas by public transportation is almost impossible. I am now very happy I didn't go to the urban night schools.

I am now eager to go on to the next project.

This is my first oil painting.