My Art Journal, What most people see- What an artist sees

From My Art Journal

One of the things I have notice is that when my wife and I go out almost daily to either the beach or into the foothills for a hike we generally are looking at the same thing. We do draw attention to what each other is seeing. But what is interesting to me is that we can be looking at the same general scene, in the same environment and she will be focused on one aspect of the scene, and I will be seeing something entirely different.

This extends to what each of us may paint from that environment and how we interpret the scene. Her color choices are different. She tends to focus on the wildlife while I tend to paint the vistas. Her work is more representational than mine. I may abstract the scene as I have done with the video you see here.