I create fairly realistic paintings, usually with watercolors.
After dozens of workshops and hundreds of hours in life drawing sessions I am now comfortable at the easel.

BUT -- Creating a good painting is a lot more than technique.

WHAT TURNS ME ON IS:

I paint tranquility. My figures are at peace.
My landscapes are of places where people and gods come to play.

I actually love abstract art. But the principles for making good abstracts are the same that apply to realistic art and while abstracts are easy to paint they cannot carry the emotional impact of actual remembered or imagined experience. For these reasons I stick to a vastly more challenging form of loosely defined realism; referred to these days as abstract realism.