Just do it! You have a passion for it, so harness it!
Go to the dollar store and buy some brushes and canvas (both are surprisingly good despite being cheap). Then buy a 48-color acrlyic (or oil) set, so you don't need to worry about mixing colors (~$40, but worth it).
Paint from photos. Find a really nice photo, sketch it out with paint/pencil and then paint what you see.
Paint with a friend or a nice teacher. Painting will be, and is always, frusturating. Throughout every painting, at some point, you will look at it and think its terrible. Painting with others is nice because when you get to that point and you can ask someone to look at it and tell you its not bad (and they are usually right). Once you paint through the frusturation you will find anything you think is bad can be made good.
As others suggested, you might also learn to draw. IMO the best way to do this is to go to a model drawing session. These are uninstructed and the time-varying of the poses will help a lot.
Take pride in anything you make. Hang it up on the wall, take a picture of it. Don't compare yourself to Monet or other painters, just paint what you like and enjoy what you paint.
Go to the dollar store and buy some brushes and canvas (both are surprisingly good despite being cheap). Then buy a 48-color acrlyic (or oil) set, so you don't need to worry about mixing colors (~$40, but worth it).
Paint from photos. Find a really nice photo, sketch it out with paint/pencil and then paint what you see.
Paint with a friend or a nice teacher. Painting will be, and is always, frusturating. Throughout every painting, at some point, you will look at it and think its terrible. Painting with others is nice because when you get to that point and you can ask someone to look at it and tell you its not bad (and they are usually right). Once you paint through the frusturation you will find anything you think is bad can be made good.
As others suggested, you might also learn to draw. IMO the best way to do this is to go to a model drawing session. These are uninstructed and the time-varying of the poses will help a lot.
Take pride in anything you make. Hang it up on the wall, take a picture of it. Don't compare yourself to Monet or other painters, just paint what you like and enjoy what you paint.
Good luck, I'm happy to share more if you'd like.