back in middle school my parents put me in this place called mission renaissance.after i got past using pastels watercolors were next.
what we had to do was copy the pictures they gave us. you start at the very beginning with pastles and make subjects using shapes
and then color however we desired (well at least trying to be real at times). then after you finished that you went to doing greyscaled
still lifes and then colored. after that you move on to watercolors, but i don't remember still lifes with watercolor then moved onto
oil painting with greyscale still lifes and then color and after that we copied images from a book. after i did my first color still life i
was able to go straight to the book, which i did flowers... though... i don't have it cause after that point i took a long break and by the
time i came back for it they already tossed it out.