What to paint..

Painting.  Well, seems like all you need are some brushes, or not.  Well you definitely need a canvas.. or not.  However, you do need pant.. yes, certainly paint.  Alberti went beyond the basics of simply painting a picture.  Before reading On Painting, I had no clue how much time and work is supposed to go into painting a picture.  Although some do not follow Alberti's style of painting, to him only great painters did.  It seemed like there was only one step to painting a picture:   paint it.  After reading his work, however, he described three very definitive steps:  circumscription, composition, and reference to light.  His words described each aspect in great detail (which means I was lost through a good portion of the book), but after meeting in class each part became somewhate clearer.  Little did I know, painting a picture requires much more than what I thought it did.