October 5 2013 after 2 years or watching painters on the internet and looking at pictures of oil paintings I happened to see a T.V. program called Beautiful Freestyle Oil Painting from Alberta up here in Canada. The painter was Ed Martyniuk. Every day at noon there was two half hour shows where he taught people how to paint.After about 6 months of watching I ordered one of Ed's DVD's and painted my third oil painting. This turned out to be a lot better than I expected. I was quite pleased at what I did. Not bad for someone with no talent and an ex factory worker.