I have been oil painting for over thirty years as a hobby. Since retiring from teaching, I am now the student. One of the last classes I took was a video course by Dan Edmundson. I have completed both the still life and landscape courses. During the class I brushed up on my skills and started to refine my own style of painting that I call contemporary, realistic. I do not try to copy every detail I see but choose to enhance the ones I feel are the most important ones. I try to keep my color choices, values, brush strokes and composition the...more