Don't forget the happy little clouds!
I LOVE making happy clouds!
What I really found, is that I loved painting his landscapes, but that I was never going to want any of them in my house... and after I'd finish one, or get frustrated by it, I'd just scrape the canvas and do a different one. You can do that with oils, since it takes so long to dry.
What I really wanted to do was to draw horses... and dogs, and I found painting them with brushes way too imprecise. I got pretty good at drawing horses in pencil, but really I can't match the art of the real thing, and enjoy now just photographing them.