"Try to forget what objects you have before you — a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think, ‘here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow’, and paint it just as it appears, the exact color and shape."
Here are three paintings I've been looking at this week (clicking on an image will take you to the artist's website):
David Campbell, Touching My Wife's Hair While She Sleeps, 13 x 16, 2012
Erin Raedeke, Refuse 1, 12 x 16, oil on board, 2013
John Lee, Dead Hall, oil on linen, 2014