Painting-A-Day: October 11, 2006

The most important benefit of this practice for me is the ability to find something to paint without having to search for the ingredients to a larger still-life. Actually, considering that I do not even paint still-lifes on a regular basis , this is definitely rewarding. What I am starting to realize at this point though, is that I still can't get rid of my ever-present conflicting issue of trying to record what I see (as I was taught) and trying to express a concept beyond mere reality (what I was also taught, but by a different school of thought)