When my son was a little more than a year old, he came into my studio and immediately put his beautiful little hand into my palette of oil paint. Cleaning his delicate hands wasn't an easy task, on many levels. So I put away the oil paint and have been painting in acrylic for 5 years. Now I realize there are some things that you can't do with acrylic, and have brought out the oil paint again. I attempted a self portrait sketch in oil this morning. Oil is to acrylic what cotton is to polyester. Or what  Roosevelt's new deal was compared to the modern day stimulus packages.