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As the Art season is in full swing,  I struggle to create art pieces with "stickyness"  that will be around and enjoyed for years. I want to avoid the "paint what sells" mentality.  It never finishes as well as a painting that finds me.

What comes from the heart goes  to the heart.     

Art reflects the times, I want to create pieces that excite me,  subject matter , color, control and spontaneity.   I want a painting that 100 years from now might inspire another budding artist.  What are your thoughts about this digital "information" age and how it influences art.

  Today I went out painting near Moose North of Jackson, the weather was great,  There were two skinny, hungry spring Moose crossing the river just behind me. ( Glad it wasn't a bear)  Paul was fishing the river...Fun day.  I painted the Snowy creek and willows.

Today I read something that inspired me ..from Oswald Chambers...
There is a difference between an Idea and a vision. An idea has no moral inspiration, a vision has.   The people who give themselves over to ideas rarely do anything. ...But where ever there is a vision, there is also a life of rectitude because the vision imparts moral incentive.
Ideas may lull to ruin. take stock of yourself spiritually and see whether you have ideas only or if you have vision.
(Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers)  " Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint".  proverbs 29:18