The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.