@bambuka, I appreciate your thoughts, I want to be approachable so if I'm doing things that will ultimately frustrate anyone that would be the wrong direction for me. I think a fine line exists here and I'll search for it. I don't think that these ideas are too advanced for a beginner but I think the over use of software mumbo jumbo will end up being frustrating.

I made another post already and plan on a third just on bananas and yellow. I am trying to make this practice the kind you would do with a new piece of music. At first you pick out the notes slowly, frustratingly, it sounds awful. The second or third go around you are starting to get the hang of it and the music starts and you think less about each individual step or note and "play" rather than read. In this way I think that I am trying to relate a way of learning. Not "how to paint x" rather "how you might think about painting x"

I'll keep in mind lessons from this first go around and adjust the way I deliver these ideas. I really do want people to just start painting, it's the best way to learn and making mistakes are the first step one takes in deciding there's a problem to solve in the first place.