I have been an interested observer of the steps  in my art career.  At first, and for a long time,  I was concerned with copying a photo or nature. The closer I could come to depicting the subject exactly the more successful I felt.   It took a number of years before I was comfortable with the idea that I could edit my subject, move things around, eliminate or add things.  This year I experienced a new twist on that theme as I consciously took the original idea and developed it over time.  I call this the evolution of a painting.

This short video clip illustrates this process.