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Human beings are decisive creatures.  With every day, for every person, decisions loom.  Some decisions are made for oneself, but sometimes choices are made for us. Each decision an effect, large or small. Artists have their decisions to make too.  Some are easier than others, but all direct efforts to create and express. 

Here are a few areas of choice:

1) Subject matter: do  you create something familiar and comfortable? Do you stretch your visions to confront, to provoke the viewer? To record reality or share a dream?

2) Media: is your vision better conveyed in paint and canvas, drawing, carved stone or wood? Glass or ink? Fabric or steel? Music or dance? or both?

3)  Purpose:  are you creating to lead to cash, feed your family or your ego? Share your heart? Get your point across? Reflect a social conscience? Personal enjoyment? Creating a legacy?

4) Getting it seen:  Only for you, or for others? Who do call? (Not Ghostbusters, hopefully) Gallery, online, art shows or fairs? Co-op? Door to door?  eBay? Advertise?

Whether the choice is conscious or impulse, we are guided daily by the decisions we make.  Make the conscious ones in honesty, with your heart, and with positive intention.  It's yours to choose.

Late on a summer afternoon, the shadows on the marsh lengthen, and daytime life slows toward evening.  The wading birds continue to search the mud and water, seeking dinner.  The breeze in the trees whispers and cools.  Welcome rest from a hectic day is ahead.  This painting reflects that most special time of day, a time of beauty and peace.