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Mike
Another first-name reference.
After what you said, I've taken an oath never to be stingy with my oils again. However, I tend to waste colors in anothor way, they dry up on my palette. To tell you the truth, I hate oils (the mess, the brushes etc..) but I love to use them.
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Matthew,
First name is fine with me.
In my opinion there are at least two things that any artist needs to forget about, get over, resolve to give no weight. The first has to do with materials: give no thought at all to the quantity of materials consumed; the number of T-shirts stained, carpet ruined, walls needing to be repainted, the amount of paint left out of the tube and off the canvas. Resolve not to judge the mess you've made but the work you've created.
The next item is TIME. The amount of time it's taking to resolve design before starting, the time it's taking to resolve wip problems, the amount of time its taking to finish a work of art.
Leave these matters for others to fret about, and they will.
About color, I think that there are some people that intuitively "get" color, the way some people "hear" music. They can see color and replicate it and they can recognize color harmony. Others need to approach it in terms of formula the way a musician would "need" to read music. It helps if you can identify which you are as early as possible. Either I think can be successful, but trying to force yourself into the wrong pattern can be very frustrating. I know this well from my own experience.
Personally I think that correct values are more important than the exact color. You might try painting a portrait (or whatever) in oil with only the gray scale. First of all it's way easier than color, it will focus your attentions on value only, it will give you more courage to put sufficient paint on canvas, and you will be amazed at how satisfying the results will be.