Please Help!!! I need your opinion

[Sharon Knettell]

Olena,

You are embarking on a worthwhile journey.

I wish this sort of training was around when I was interested in learning the figurative arts. I spent many long years, even though I went to the Boston Museum School, teaching myself by whatever method I could glean, just how to do it.

There are no shorcuts to mastery. Learning from life with a really qualified teacher is a time honored tradition, and well worth the time and money invested.

[Olena Babak]

Hi Sharon,
Thank you for your encouragement it has been a few years since I tried to teach myself step by step and little by little different painting techniques.
The biggest problem so far is finding the opportunity to work from life, unfortunately in lately it