- You’re a guy who lied through your teeth when you said you did oil painting to impress a cute, artsy girl.
- You’re the type who’s ‘willing to try anything once’ and the ‘anything’ of the week for you was oil painting.
- You just saw a Van Gogh film or something like that and you’re suddenly inspired to make like the movie.
- You’re an art student (heaven forbid) who never paid attention or kept cutting class and now the plate is actually due and (heaven forbid again) there was no one you could pay real quick to paint it for you.
But before anything else, I guess you could say that the first thing you might ‘get into your head’ for oil painting is…