I painted today.  It's been a long time coming.  I have tons of half finished canvases in the store room.  Mostly they are ones that didn't work out or are so terrible they need to be painted over.  I finished one for a friend and today started on another. 

I can copy just about anything.  What's really hard for me are abstracts.  Whoever said they were just a bunch of splotches and dabs has never tried it.  I see a lot of abstracts that really wow me.  However, I have never been able to do one that speaks to me that way.  I'm going to keep working on this abstract for a bit.  I just want to see if I can do it. I've been in a pretty bleak place lately and I'm hoping this will catapult me out of it.  It's amazing how distracted I can get.  I'm all wrapped up in having my house on the market and designing the new one, that I don't do the one thing that really feeds me; paint. 

I actually sold one of my more abstract landscapes out of the coffee shop the other day.  Kind of surprised me.