Hello, I'm Ricky Haug. I started oil painting in 1990, in an intermediate art class I took in High School. My first art creation was with charcoal pencils. I loved how I could take a thick line and blend it to an almost transparent mist on a sheet of paper. After experimenting with different techniques for shading, and found the one that really worked for me, I drew my first Landscape. I was pretty impressed with the way it turned out. I kept drawing for a few years, until I took up the intermediate art class in school. I...more