/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Is this the /paint/ general? I'm crossposting from the draw thread b/c few people there ever seem to mess with oil paint.

I'm trying to make the jump from charcoal. This is my first to not wind up a smudgy mess.

Painted a foam sphere sitting on foam core. I know I keyed it too dark and blew-out the reflected light so it looks more like polished clay than foam.

I find I have to scrub paint with no medium in super thin or it's uncontrollable and turns into a smudgy mess. At this rate I'm gonna go through a brush and tube of paint every three paintings.