I know it is the wrong way to go about these things but I have decided to start afresh and teach myself how to paint and try and understand the process of applying paint to a surface.   This is the first stab at the process and already I have started to learn many things which I should have known all along – perhaps the most important one today is that each paint media has it’s own properties and consistencies and this effects how they are applied to a surface.  Time to think and cogitate about this and then build on the lessons.  It is the only way to learn don’t you know.