Acrylic on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This one is about the feeling I get during periods where i focus on my realist style of art. I find that if i focus on that style for too long i get the increasing desire to create abstract art. This is what that feeling looks like, it feels like a swelling in the brain, but in a creative way, your head aches to express itself in new ways and its almost like having a pressure filled bruise, the expression of it when it is unleashed is unpredictable, beautiful, colourful, and sometimes a bit scary...but without it i would not paint. The section of the face that has been removed from the rest of the figure in the bottom right hand corner of the painting is representation of what i see myself doing when i switch styles. I put down a portion of my creative mask...and out floods new ideas. Once the flood slows to a trickle, I get new desires to paint other subjects in other styles. This is perhaps my own creative Yin and Yang that I must balance. It can be painful sometimes, but I love it.