View From Above
Acrylic abstract painting
8×10 on flat panel
Available here

This is what it looked like from my hotel room, high above the city. 

I’ve discovered that I’m most patient when painting a portrait, and the most impatient when I’m painting an abstract. When I’m painting a portrait, I tend to meander around the canvas, not caring if it takes me all day..or a month, even. 

With an abstract, I feel the urgency to get what I’m feeling or seeing within my mind’s eye down on the canvas quickly before it’s gone forever. It all happens so fast. I find it exhilarating, and frustrating at the same time. I don’t have time to sit around waiting for paint to dry, so the colors don’t bleed into one another. Yet, if I’m not patient, the colors smear and turn to mud. Trying to find a happy medium has been a struggle lately. I don’t always remember it being this way, so perhaps I’ll find the answer soon.