How to Simplify Your Vision for a Painting

Once you have an idea of the story, and I keep using the word story, is that the right word to use there? Like once you have the story? Story, visions, ideas, those are all the same thing. Once you identify that, it's like a thing that comes out from a fog. It's just slowly revealing itself. Well, then once you have a story in your mind, are there a general set of steps you walk through to work through a painting? This is the easy part. But we need to have that idea to start. And then one more step. You break those bigger three tones into smaller tone. So that way you can build your painting from