Sometimes you can get lost in what you paint?. You don’t want to paint like everyone else.  You want new and different, but really what does that look like?  I’ve seen a lot of art and there is definitely a numerous amount of “out there” type artwork. It ranges from unbelievably surrealism to outlandishly abstract and everything in between.  For me, I paint what I am moved by, the wind blowing through the trees, that pink color in the clouds which on canvas looks fake but in nature is awesome. The soft sound of water running in a brook, and the song of birds in a  quite space. The spiritual essence of God in our world. Those things are hard to paint, but that is my artistic goal. Something I one day hope to achieve in the art I do.