Learning Acrylic

My first love is painting with oil, but it takes so long to dry; so I am trying acrylics.  I read somewhere that you can make acrylics look like oils with glazes etc.  The bunny above is a 4 x 6" painting.  My other challenge was getting the camera to get just the painting.  Next time I will try a bigger painting. 

The wonderful pencil

This is a sketch of a goat - my next step is going to be working in paint - although sketching with graphite pencils can be enjoyable and can be done anywhere and anytime. Could have saved myself a lot of money if I knew I was going to start with pencil only.  I never appreciated working in pencil when I was in art school - what a shame.  From what I understand it is drawing that will help make the painting better - something we all learn in our art class - but think we want some medium with a little more to it - finally I am getting to appreciate the pencil.