One way to learn painting is to copy paintings. Shown here are my in-progress studies of:

"Le Printemps" (1868-1873) by Jean-François Millet [French, 1814 - January 1875]
(Collection of Richard and Sylvia Thoma)

and my odd cropping of :

"Adoration of the Shepherds" (c. 1644) by Georges de La Tour [French Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1652]
(Collection of Michelle Thoma)