How do you choose a subject for your next painting? Maybe you have spent most of your time looking for the 'right' place instead of painting. If not careful, I can get a 'yeah but I wonder what's over there' mentality. Instead of wandering all over, I try to pay attention to a scene that catch my initial interest. Then instead of overlooking and continuing on, I try to see the potential. For example, this landscape has elements I enjoy. The contrast in values and warm and cool colors have a nice feel. The challenge now is to capture what attracted me while having fun with composition and setting it up.  This painting "Cool Spot" I needed to get the values right and pay attention to the foreground. Both the cool blue of snow and red bushes seem to demand attention, I didn't want one to diminish the other.