So, when I was 14 and 15, living in Brazil with my family, I took some oil painting lessons. I have old paintings that I did, and of course, my parents love them more than I do :) But, I loved oil painting, and got pretty good. Well, the problem wtih oil painting is that it smells really strong, you kinda have to have a studio or art room, and of course, painting can be pretty messy. SO, I never thought I'd get INTO it again!!
And yes, I only have a garage at this point, but my wonderful, thoughtful, SUPER TALENTED husband built me, for my birthday, as a surprise...(at first I thought it might be something for the baby, but he said, "honey, everything from now on will be for the baby, so I wanted to do smoething just for YOU) Anyway, it's a wonderful easel that's really sturdy, adjustable, and has wheels on it... and then he got a ton of high quality oil paints to start out with for a really good deal, a color book, and he also made custom-frames--the wooden square frames done by hand with no table saw, so totally from scratch and stretched the canvas himself, stapled it together, and basically made these canvases by hand.
He's wonderful... he says the easel isn't done, but I don't care becuase I can't wait to post it!!
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