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Hi,
I've been taking art classes for a while now and found the one thing that I love the most, to oil paint. I truely love to paint! I started studying a paintings style of the; Old Masters, such as Van Eyck, called Technique Mixte. A very detailed and time consuming technique, I took up pastel painting just to feel as if I'm getting some paintings done! A few years ago, I picked up a camera to learn how to take reference photos for paintings, and love leaning about it. Like painting, I keep working at it and the results have been getting better everyday.