The Painting with a Mind of It's Own!

Abandon Ship, mixed media on birch, 6 x 4"

This was a difficult painting that started as a collage and then I added paint. This process always shares a new perspective on my work, and this time I found bits of the collage to be peaking out from under the paint that simply kicked me "upside my head." (A special childhood friend would say she might "hit me upside my head" when I was driving her crazy -- only as a term of endearment to put the fear of God into me. Her language worked well --  I behaved after hearing these words! ...Thus my alteration to her expression: "kicked me upside my head!")
Anyway ... I let the painting tell me where to go and when to stop. I simply followed the painting's request ... and I am very satisfied.