So for my first painting class we had to paint bottles arranged on a table with a spotlight from the right. I had to get used to many things being that paint is different from my usual tools. Here I learned after that its best to apply a light amount of oil color (one color- raw umber) with more turpentine because it is easier to erase any mistakes, etc. Plus with oil, its a lot easier going from light to dark than dark light. I also learned to use my brush as a measuring device to tell the height, width, & distance of objects in relation to each other. In the end I ran out of turpentine which explains the heavy brushmarks.
This is a huuuuge step being that my first attempt came out really bad I had to flip the canvas to start over. It was a good thing my professor did a 10 min demo because I learned a whole lot. You can still see my structural marks especially on the lying bottle & the tall rectangular bottle. I had to stop myself from erasing them because the area will be discolored. It's funny because for painting you have to be picky; you have to control how much pressure, how much oil paint to use, how much turpentine, etc. WITHOUT USING A PENCIL in the beginning. Every mark counts.
Blurry bc my cell's camera is broken :( Underlying structure of bottles I was practicing in my apartment. BTW, I again had to flip the canvas to start over.
COMPLETE!!! Came out better than I expected. L to R is a ketchup bottle, mustard container, Jelly bottle, & glass container of mango anchar yuummmm.... If you haven't noticed, that's supposed to be the view of a section of my refridgerator door. 
This is really how I worked on that painting... gruelling! LOL 
