Failure is Good!

It's hard to hear that, but it is true.  Failure is education (if you don't give up).  It's learning what not to do.
I'm reading a book full of inspirational quotes, "It always seems impossible until it's done." by Kathryn and Ross Petras.  www.amazon.com/Always-Seems-Impossible-Until-Done  I always love a good quote to reflect upon.  So, today's quote is appropriate for today's painting (of which I'm not a fan of).
"I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it." - Vincent van Gogh
Daily Painting Day 3:

Quiet House
5x7 Quick Study

I took this picture because of the house in the distance.  I'm always intrigued when I see houses especially out in the middle of nowhere.  I wonder who lives there and what it is like to live there.  I also like the contrast of the hard edge, man-made building next to the natural landscape.

Anyways, it was a very dark, grey day when I took this photo and wanted to change it up from my bright sunny day winter scenes.  It just seems very boring to me (as I am a big fan of bright colors) and I'm not happy at all with the tree in the foreground.  So, that said, I am going to give this one another try tomorrow.