Hi Peter, neither spelling nor grammar is one of my best abilities so bear with me, I am also glad you understood everything that was said here today, I also like Spain myself however I feel that everything I have accomplished in life as an artist is do to the fact of growing up in New York City and my father been an art collector and all, I am not familiar with Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra I have heard of him and his books specially about his Don Quijote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, it was also pleasant for me to communicate with other artists such as yourself here on Showyourarts, and Peter about my name no need to excuse yourself most of my friends call me Rudy and also RVO, so like you said (let the fine arts bring us more joy and creativity.) Yours Truly. RVO

Hi Peter the only person that can give you a review on your art is yourself cause if you really believe in what you do that along should be enough, I mean take Van Gogh for example wasn’t he told he started to late in life as an artist? And wasn’t Paul Gauguin laughed at one of his art exhibitions my own mother told me that I was wasting my life and money with my artwork and when I showed my sister some of my paintings I was told that I had nothing she could hang on her wall, my father was the only one who truly believed in me, of course the only thing that all that negative feedback did for me was to improve my skills as a painter and besides I don’t paint to get peoples approval is just something that I need to do regardless, so if what you do is something that makes you happy than by all means don’t stop doing it and as you say just work harder and try different mediums like chalk and pastel on canvas so that you can easily rework your art and if your happy with the results you can always is use a fixative to protect and to permanently retain the composition, and remember that a true artist always paint. Yours Truly RVO.