The Description of an Artist

I've always been good with words.  From a very young age I wanted to be a writer.  Create magic worlds for people to escape into.  Storycraft always made sense to me, in comparison Art seemed magical.  No words used to create a beautiful painting, or sculpture, or drawing.  Yet so much can be comunicated by a single piece of artwork. 
Artists are magicians, instructors, interrogators, instigators, detectives.  Their work can in turns; reveal, conceal, communicate, transform, unify, divide and so much more.  The world of art seemed like one I had been denied entrance to.  Now I see that artists are struggling with life's questions through their work, the same way everyone else does.  The end product of their process is just more accesible to the world at large.

I did some searches online to see if there were any tips and tricks to this painting with acrylics thing.  I found This Website where I got a free ebook for just sending in my email address.

Now, in some things I am very good at following instructions and getting good results the first time.  I found this process to not be one of those things.  I got the sky down pretty well, but the clouds escaped me.  They look ok, but not as realistic as the instructional photos.  And the trees are covering up my failure of a mountain range in the distance.  I don't know whether it is my paint mixing, or my technique... probably both, but the trees don't have nearly as much depth as I was going for.  But I figure the only way I'll get better is to practice, and learn, and mess up.  So here is my second effort on my second week.  I am determined not to give up just because I am not getting immediate results, that is one of the repeating failures in my life.  I am not going to fail because I quit this time.