I followed evening courses at the Fine Arts of Annecy (France)for three years. Extremely useful. I learnt a bit of everything and it openend my mind on opther approaches to Art. It was a very enlightening experience altogether. And it gave me good basis to work on my own, and to discover techniques that I would have otherwise never considered. Stuff like sculpting on metal, carving plastic, oil painting, and plenty others...
I also passed the exams to enter the Fine Arts, twice, succesfully. But I went to a Computing school instead (I got a bit scared of the artsy-fartsy behaviour of most lecturers in Fine Arts).