Found a cool program callaed ArtRage yesterday. I do not have a graphics tablet yet, but even using the mouse this program REALLY gives you the feeling of dealing with oil. This was with the demo version with many tools disabled.

I just never wanted to try oils because materials are SO expensive,and I didn;t want to spend hundreds of dollars just to find out that I sucked at it. So I think this is a great learning tool and also just to see if you enjoy it.

I did this in about 4 hours yesterday. I'm no artist, but I was pretty pleased with the result. I think if I spent more time on a serious picture, I might be able to do all right!

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/b...nryu1Final.jpg