Editor's Note

One of the nicest things about painting details is there availability.
We don't need to take a painting vacation in exotic places to find subject
matter (although that's always a delight too). Subjects abound close by
--look around your backyard, garden, or local park. Consider the potted
plants on your windowsill; be on the lookout for small slices of everyday life.

To pick your subject, look around you slowly. Consider everything, but choose nothing
just yet. Then close your eyes, Something will come to mind. Something has made an
impression. Respond to it in your imagination. Why has this particular subject touched
you? What did you notice about it, what elicited a response? Perhaps is was simply a
special beauty, a sparkle of life or movement. Perhaps a particular angle captured your
imagination, a play of light and dark.
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