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It isn't just pounding away at the easel, it's developing your individual way of "seeing" and then if what you have to say is universal and important enough to be worth preserving.
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Kim, Thanks for your response. I had no idea that this topic would be so controversial! I am afraid I have to disagree with your opinion above. To me, it IS about pounding away at the easel. That is where it all happens - successes, failures, learning and growth. To my mind, you not only have to learn to "see", but to translate what you see from your eye to your hand. You won't get that skill easily unless you are amazingly gifted, you put in a lot of hard work, or you paint abstract expressionism.
Whether works are worth preserving is not up to us, but to society. Given that society currently puts such value into Thomas Kincaid, I am not taking society very seriously - I am just having a lot of fun doing what I love.
Hope you are well.