General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today? Pt.29 Visit with Friends, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Starzz,

I was always drawing--all my life. My mom said that back in Latvia ( I left when i was 7), I was always drawing horses, and they were never still--always running or jumping. Wish I had one of those to see. I wonder just how good they were, as i would have been like--5 or 6.
I have never taken this natural. God-given talent I have seriously. I did major in art in High School and got a taste of all the branches of art. That's it!
If you remember the 2 pictures of the Sparrow hawks i did in pencil--those were done in, maybe, 1960?

When I signed up for the "classes" I mostly needed to learn techniques of oil painting as I had never, ever used oil paints. And some instruction on how to achieve a given effect. Out teacher was good at that. If we didn't "get it", she would sit down and show us--on OUR paintings! I wrote you all about that.
What I found out is that I was a great copier of any picture from anywhere--any size and making a painting of it.

So, as promised, I will now post some of the other paintings--NOT all.....Save some for later...

This is just a pretty flower vase.