Over the years I have often heard comments like this:"watercolor is the most difficult painting medium to master when compared to other media such as oil".  I understand a few of those people making such comment  are my watercolor fans, so comments like this are more or less a compliment to my work.  But some other people, including some painters, are serious about this assertion.  I don't know where this common belief comes from, but these days I usually answer back like this:"every medium is difficult when one truly wants to excel in it."  Though  I have always loved and done watercolor, recently I have fallen in love with oil as well.  I love everything about oil that watercolor is not - except the part of cleaning the brushes and palette afterwards.

Taking on oil paintings

This summer I painted about 30 canvases, the sizes of the paintings are on the small side.  I cannot believe that I actually enjoy painting in oil after many years of painting in watercolor.  It is rather refreshing to me to paint in oil.  I feel comfortable with the medium.  That said, I am not a master of oil painting; I am not a watercolor master either after so many years of  watercolor painting experience.  The more we learn, the less we know.  But I am not shamed of sharing my oil works with others.  I welcome all your comments.  Here is one of the oil paintings I did in this summer. Cheers!