WHERE DID YOU LEARN TO PAINT?

I had a really great art teacher, Narcisso Maisterra, for two years in one of the high schools I went to, but we didn't get to paint too much in oils because there wasn't enough time. However, he encouraged me and introduced me to the work of Goya and Francis Bacon. His own beautifully macabre work was also a great inspiration. Unfortunately, I lost touch with him when he went back to Spain. After high school I went to Rhode Island School of Design briefly, but they didn't teach classical oil painting there at the time so I dropped out. I should have found someone to teach me because it would have been easier and less painful than trying to teach myself.