Visions...

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping…  -Simon and Garfunkel

Rainy Morning Blues 36X36 Acrylic on Canvas

​I am so fortunate. God gave me the gift of imagination. All my life I’ve seen ideas, opportunities, things that others don’t.  As an artist I can go to a location and see subjects, compositions, light, color, and contrast as few do. It’s not just talent and training, it’s a gift.
 
But imagination, concepts and ideas are just half the battle. The secret is “follow through”.  Concepts and ideas without “follow through” have no value.  Consider an entrepreneur, like the late Steve Jobs, without follow through Apple wouldn’t exist. Show me one person whose life hasn’t been affected by the follow through of Steve Jobs.
 
It’s the same with artists. Monet’s Water Lilies would not exist without his obsession to paint them. The same can be said about the hundreds of paintings of Norman Rockwell’s nostalgic Americana, or Georgia O’Keeffe’s Southwest Landscapes, or Mark Bradford’s contemporary America.  Follow through, it’s the gift of all great artists.
 
Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again… 

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