Progress Comes Slowly

Life has been exciting lately. I've finished four commissions in the past week and I've got about $1,000 worth of people interested that I need to coax in to buying a portrait of their children. I really wish I had more time to devote to all this. Work has been sucking the life out of me and life seems to be poking it's head into my studio and taking me away. I've been working on something new the past week.

I started with a profile face and then got the idea to add some geometric lines and shapes to it. I thought they might all blend together, but that didn't happen. I was pretty frustrated, telling my Facebook fans about it. I posted a picture (this one in fact) to show them where I was stuck. I got an avalanche of positive comments saying what a great, innovative (at least that's what I remember them saying) painting it was. I'm thinking "I'm back at the start here, I don't know what to do next" and I'm hearing "we love this, let us hang it on our walls". I'm afraid I'm more confused now than I was before.